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So, all in all, OpenAIs puritanism ruined this product, made the developer sad and took away a virtual porn toy from lonely, horny men. Who were they doing this for? Who is the winner? They lost a customer and made a lot of people sad.

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> Who were they doing this for?

VISA probably. Card processing is weirdly puritanical.

Interesting. Not sure how this is different from Onlyfans and lots of money is going there.

VISA/Mastercard goes after those as well. ebooks too. Penalizing short people, forcing verbiage changes, etc.

I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...

If that were the case, and it was B2B where pricing tiers are more acceptable, would they not simply have a "porno tax"?

They want chatgpt in schools to own the next gen of workers.

"Hook 'em while they're young, like the tobacco industry. God, I wish we had their numbers." -- Cardinal Glick, _Dogma_, accidentally explaining Apple's outbound marketing model, later copied by Microsoft and Google.

You aren't the customer, you're the product.

People paying for their API must be their customers, I mean, if there is no one paying for their API, how do they make money? (Besides ChatGPT+)

What I'm seeing these days is that you're always the product, because advertisers are one more customer, and everyone wants more customers, and the individuals who care about privacy don't "weigh enough" to win tug-of-war with the majority of people who don't care.

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