I suspect this was using tons of “compute” and the monthly subscription fee wasn’t covering it.
Fortunately, there are several competitors including China’s ByteDance in this space.
intercst
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ChatGPT has been cutting free conversations short where they used to allow very long conversations. Now they put up a subscription banner after only a few minutes.
Wendy
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Free is very expensive.
The Captain
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I’ve noticed that as well. I very rarely use the current AIs, but over the last few weeks (mostly as an experiment) I used chatgpt to help me maintain my pool. It did a good job, but it was way too agreeable and constanly praising me for minimal accomplishments. But it would often ask for photos of stuff so it could help me better. Then suddenly I started getting warnings that it can’t continue the conversation with media (photos) anymore unless I upgrade to a paid plan. Meanwhile I was mostly using it as a glorified search engine, and I assume that when it recommended products, it used an affiliate link. Now I rarely upload photos and instead rely on plain old text. But I suppose that’s what you get for free.
I don’t see any need for a paid plan. I only used it for something very casual and I wasn’t using it to earn money or anything similar.
As an aside, a few times I asked it if it can learn from me. I had corrected it a few times, and I also taught it some good hints about proper pool care. It said “no” that it can’t directly learn from me. I even told it to use certain pieces of information when answering other similar queries and it said that it doesn’t work that way.
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It’s honeyed flattering, designed to lure us in. So far as I can tell, it’s a good search engine, chat bot, and assistant for some tasks, but cursory and undependable, like an ambitious intern we may find eating our lunch one day.
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The last time I used ChatGPT I asked it to decrypt a cryptogram in a game (Sherlock) I was playing.
The ChatGPT answered “No.”
Heck, if I wanted someone to say “No” to me, I would have asked my wife for something.
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Parents probably do not want this. Silicon Valley has been backing off products the public do not want. If the public does not want it, Disney was spending too much for it. Favors all around.