• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m guessing that means a team or someone presented their pricing analysis to him, and suggested a price range. And this is his way of taking responsibility for making the final judgment call.

    (He’d get blamed either way, anyways)

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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      $20/mo sounds like a reasonable subscription-ish price, so he picked that. That OpenAI loses money on every query, well, let’s build up volume!

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
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      While the words themselves near an apology, I didn’t read it as taking responsibility. I read it as:

      Anyone could have made this same mistake. In fact, dumber people than I would surely have done worse.