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I think this is broadly explicable by GPT etc. still being in the market growth stage of development in general. Grabbing market share and cutting off competitors is the name of the game at this point in the cycle. Once they're happy with their share they'll start tightening the bolts in the name of profit maximisation.

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OpenAI's problem is that it's not at all clear where the profit is going to come from. Average users aren't going to pay a subscription just to make the occasional query.

I think GitHub Copilot is a good LLM-based product with a fairly large market. I'm concerned that it might be the only good product out there, still.

Yup, that seems like a reasonable explanation to me too. Corporations are, as a stereotype, greedy (or their investors are), and they would not do something like this with no reason.

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