I don’t have a ChatGPT subscription. If I stop using their free tier, I think this has two effects: It benefits them because they can spend less resources on inference and it hurts them because investors lose trust in them. Do you think the expected net effect is positive or negative? Should I stop using their free tier if I want to protest against OpenAI?
Also, I noticed that I can check multiple boxes on https://quitgpt.org/ and only one of them is “I cancelled my subscription”. If I understand the footnote below the number displayed at the top (currently 1,200,000) correctly, it counts everyone who checked any of the boxes. I would be more curious about how high the number of only the people is, who canceled their subscription or commit to not paying for ChatGPT in the future.
Great questions and I’m not sure about these answers at all!
I think at the moment them having less users in general does more damage, than they benefit from the increased resources available. Fundamentally this is a race at the moment and a fight for investors and supremacy—On the free account doing even a little damage to that reputation/investability I would guess would do more than the small benefit from freeing up their compute...
On using the free tier. They can still extract personal information from your conversations on ChatGPT which can be monetized via selling it to other companies or even as training data to improve their models. I am not sure if this will offset the cost of compute but I would avoid using the free tier due the data privacy concerns and the benefits they could extract from that.
I don’t have a ChatGPT subscription. If I stop using their free tier, I think this has two effects: It benefits them because they can spend less resources on inference and it hurts them because investors lose trust in them. Do you think the expected net effect is positive or negative? Should I stop using their free tier if I want to protest against OpenAI?
Also, I noticed that I can check multiple boxes on https://quitgpt.org/ and only one of them is “I cancelled my subscription”. If I understand the footnote below the number displayed at the top (currently 1,200,000) correctly, it counts everyone who checked any of the boxes. I would be more curious about how high the number of only the people is, who canceled their subscription or commit to not paying for ChatGPT in the future.
Great questions and I’m not sure about these answers at all!
I think at the moment them having less users in general does more damage, than they benefit from the increased resources available. Fundamentally this is a race at the moment and a fight for investors and supremacy—On the free account doing even a little damage to that reputation/investability I would guess would do more than the small benefit from freeing up their compute...
On using the free tier. They can still extract personal information from your conversations on ChatGPT which can be monetized via selling it to other companies or even as training data to improve their models. I am not sure if this will offset the cost of compute but I would avoid using the free tier due the data privacy concerns and the benefits they could extract from that.