Is it really about what it offers, or about how each plan are subsidized by Meta and OpenAI?
Meta is probably making money off of Muse. They can sell ads with the information that they glean.
While there are people around here that would still argue Anthropic/OpenAI tokens are "subsidized", I find it much more plausible that Muse tokens are, given Metas strategy of burning money, including on AI models, in hope of making something happen in a market they want to enter.
calling the tokens "subsidized" in a Muse subscription is incoherent. they arent selling the tokens. they are selling a product. the tokens are just part of the cost of making a product just like any other product in existence.
They’ve claimed they’re not using the data for ads… for now
There may be a reason that I cannot access it from the EU. There, they cannot repurpose data they swallowed for another use without consent.
It’s meant for rich casuals. If you watch the presentation, everyone they depicted using it seemed to be in some high paying which collar profession. I.e. it’s for people like the people who work at open ai.
I mean, I wouldn't touch anything done by meta if they were paying me that amount. I trust them the least with my private data - google does make money with via my data, but at least they have some resemblance of competency, especially when it comes to protecting said data.
While meta can't get Facebook to properly load a video or a comment chain on their goddamn main platform.
I would think Meta has learned a ton about cybersecurity and privacy + has quite established infra at this point. I would think twice before dismissing them based on vibes