Its been 1+ month and still no API access for me? Can't really blame it on demand anymore.
Will be overjoyed when we get a non facebook licensed LLM that is 95% of the quality to run locally.
or perhaps the parent comment is complaining about public access and has just not applied for the beta
I don’t know if parent poster has paid or not, but if he haven’t, he’s probably still waiting.
I'm 100% positive it's demand. Bing uses it, and Microsoft gets the exclusivity rights because they invested billions into OpenAI (which you didn't). Then there's all the other commercial players who are looking to build product on top of it.
This stuff is hard, and it’s incredibly easy to sit here on Hacker News talking about how things will be when we finally get to the fireworks factory. But for the time being, the reality is that there’s serious money and smarts behind the development and ongoing operation of this stuff.
I, a nobody, got access to GPT-4 pretty soon after it was released. Maybe your stated use case wasn’t compelling enough to get access to the beta?
I, after getting access to GPT-4 mind you, signed up for ChatGPT Plus or Pro or whatever it’s called. GPT-4 calls are still very heavily capped.
What’s the motive behind the conspiracy theory to which you’re alluding?
I'm also a self-proclaimed nobody and got access a day or two after applying, with some ideas I wanted to play around with.
Same for friends who applied, got access within days.
The only ones that didn't get access was the ones who didn't share what they wanted to build with the access.