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At some point AI companies are going to have to charge real money to make a profit from their services. What do you think that amount would be and why? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] B0rax@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Well that entirely depends on your users… coding agents or in general agents that run for hours will crash your calculation

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

That won't happen due to token limits. According to Anthropic, only about 5% of users hit the limit.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly. Then you move up to the $100 or $200 or per token API pricing levels.

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