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Why boycott? Just use their free services and never pay for it. Cost them money instead of pay them money is a step further than boycott.
by krater23 8mo ago
Why boycott? Just use their free services and never pay for it. Cost them money instead of pay them money is a step further than boycott.
- bspammer 8mo agoInvestor confidence is far more important to them than cashflow, and the best way to shake investor confidence is with the magic words "user numbers are down".
- mrgordon 8mo agoThat sounds smart but they still raise more money because they “have 900 million users”
- pinnochio 8mo ago# of sticky non-paying users still gives them more investment juice than per user costs deducts, since we're still in the speculative phase.
- 4b11b4 8mo agoFree services are garbage, you dun know what you're getting routed to
- michaelsalim 8mo agoEven when it's not free, you can't even guarantee you aren't being routed to something else
- awestroke 8mo agoChatGPT is going to try to influence you to buy certain products and use certain services. So you'll be the product in the end
- impossiblefork 8mo agoYou do probably give them useful data by doing that.
- layer8 8mo agoIf it’s free, then you’re the product. OpenAI gets your data and ad revenue, and can raise more investor money due to how many users they have.
- james_marks 8mo agoIf you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product being sold. No, thank you.
- Larrikin 8mo agoThis is a website full of programmers. I expect an extension or Python script that ask it to generate 100 random complex questions and then proceeds to ask for answers until your limits on the free plan are reached on a loop