Use their API directly. I don’t do this to boycott them in particular but the API cost of your typical chat usage is far lower than the subscription cost.
Thanks for the information. Consider though that for many people the price of the subscription is motivated by convenience of access and use.
It took me a second to see how your comment was related to the post so here it is for others: Given this information, using the API preserves most of the benefits of access to SOTA AI (assuming away the convenience value) while destroying most of the value for OpenAI, which makes this a very effective intervention compared to cancelling the subscription entirely.
I was thinking of doing this but the ChatGPT web app seems to have many features that are only available there and add a lot of value such as Code Interpreter, PDF uploads, DALL-E, and using custom GPTs so I still use ChatGPT Plus.
Use their API directly. I don’t do this to boycott them in particular but the API cost of your typical chat usage is far lower than the subscription cost.
Thanks for the information.
Consider though that for many people the price of the subscription is motivated by convenience of access and use.
It took me a second to see how your comment was related to the post so here it is for others:
Given this information, using the API preserves most of the benefits of access to SOTA AI (assuming away the convenience value) while destroying most of the value for OpenAI, which makes this a very effective intervention compared to cancelling the subscription entirely.
There’s an API playground which is essentially a chat interface. It’s highly convenient.
I was thinking of doing this but the ChatGPT web app seems to have many features that are only available there and add a lot of value such as Code Interpreter, PDF uploads, DALL-E, and using custom GPTs so I still use ChatGPT Plus.