One thing I miss for the other users, i.e. the casual users that never use anywhere near of their quota, is rollover. If you haven't used your quota this month, the unused will roll over to the next month.
Even better: provide a counter displaying both remaining usage available and the quota reset time.
But companies probably earn so much money from the vast majority of users that having good and clear limits would only empower them to actually benefit as much from the product as they can.
Every company wants the marketing of unlimited, but none of them want the accountability.
The AI models have a bunch of different consumption models aimed at different types of use. I work at a huge company, and we’re experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for users based on different compliance and business needs. The people using all you can eat products like NotebookLM, Gemini, ChatGPT use them much more on average and do more varied tasks. There is a significant gap between low/normal/high users.
People using an interface to a metered API, which offers a defined LLM experience consume fewer resources and perform more narrowly scoped tasks.
The cost is similar and satisfaction is about the same.
There is no such thing as "unlimited" or "lifetime" unless it's self-hosted.
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This is somewhat a different issue that’s largely accepted by courts and society bar that one neighbour who is incensed they can’t run a rack off their home internet that was marketed unlimited.
In some cases, people discover creative ways to resell the service. Anthropic mentioned they suspect this was happening.
The weirdest part about this whole internet uproar, though, is that Anthropic never offered unlimited usage. It was always advertised as higher limits.
Yet all the comment threads about it are convinced it was unlimited and now it’s not. It’s weird how the internet will wrap a narrative around a story like this.
Or the American Airlines lifetime pass.. https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/american-airlines-unlimit...
I thought I had a low usage with my 1.5 years' worth saved. Only reason I paysfor that plan is anything lower and my provider does not offer rollover.
Eg here in slovenia, if you want unlimited calls and texting, you get 150GB in your "package" for 9.99eur, but you somehow can't save that data for the next month.
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In the same way your next-door supermarket has effectively "infinite soup cans" for the needs of most people.
But I guess some people do really need "Eggs: contain eggs" in their egg carton otherwise they will throw a legal fit
Nothing in our world is truly unlimited. Digital services and assets have different costs than their physical counterparts, but that just means different limits, not a lack of them. Electrical supply, compute capacity, and storage are all physical things with real world limits to how much they can do.
These realities eventually manifest when someone tries to build an "unlimited" service on top of limited components, similar to how you can't build a service with 99.999% reliability when it has a critical piece that can only get to 99.9%.
When you order the second plate, it comes without the sauce and it tastes flatter. You're filled at this point and you can't order the third.
Very creative and fun if you ask me. I was prepared for this though, because the people we went together said how it's going to go, exactly.