Ah, so you're one of the "I separate the art from the artist, so I'm allowed to listen to Kanye" kinda people. I respect that, at least when the product is something of subjective value like art. In this case, 3 months of not buying ChatGPT Pro would afford you the funding to build your own damn AI cluster.
To be honest, it doesn't matter what the price of producing AI is, though. $200/month is, and will be a stupid price to pay because OpenAI already invented a price point with a half billion users - free. When they charged $10/month, at least they weren't taking advantage of the mentally ill. This... this is a grift, and a textbook one at that.
It is true that I separate art from artist. Mostly because otherwise there would be very little art to enjoy.
You don’t sound like you’re very familiar with the chatgpt product. They have about 10m customers paying $20/month. I’m one of them, and I honestly get way more than $200/month value from it.
Perhaps I’m “mentally ill”, but I’d ask you to do some introspection and see if leaping to that characterization is really the best way to explain people who get value where you see none.
To be honest, it doesn't matter what the price of producing AI is, though. $200/month is, and will be a stupid price to pay because OpenAI already invented a price point with a half billion users - free. When they charged $10/month, at least they weren't taking advantage of the mentally ill. This... this is a grift, and a textbook one at that.