I meant OpenAI billing for me in the same charge, an external app integrating their API. So the user only pay once
The way I understand it is that:
OpenAI bills people who use their API to build apps or whatever.
OpenAI also bills people who use its non-API products (like ChatGPT).
Am I missing something here or what is it that you dislike about this?
Like AI is the gas that powers the AI product. OpenAI sells the gas, the product gets commission.
That was my understanding at least, since I've had the same thought.
Maybe there’s a world where it’s like bring your own keys and pay $3-$5 for my UX work and could rental delivering that to you.
I also see a world where web app devs shift to distributing free self hosted versions of products; new tools like CLAY make transitioning from web dev UI to local GUI pretty easy :)