At some point AI companies are going to have to charge real money to make a profit from their services. What do you think that amount would be and why? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

do they? did search engines? free to play with mmo's took over the market to some degree. I think there will always be a free tier and a monthly subscription that might get to the level of streaming services and corpo ones that ingest internal data and such and give a variety of professional resources. For that matter might be some professional monthly subscriptions for like coding.

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