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I still don't follow you at all.

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?

They're basically suggesting logging into a product with an OpenAI account and paying OpenAI directly for the product's AI usage. Presumably the product would get some cut of OpenAI's revenue.

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.

I think you might be on the right track but the guy says that in his dream world the user only pays once. That’s the same thing that’s happening now. I neither know nor care how much OpenAIWrapperApp is paying for its API usage. I just get billed by OpenAIWrapperApp for the amount they charge.

You can forward user keys to OpenAI on behalf of a user as a dev.

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 :)

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