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Comment by calumcl

6 hours ago

Subscribers were already getting subsidised compute and value compared to the 20-200$ fee, peak cakeism to want more considering the alternative would likely be consumption based pricing for individuals so you "benefit" from OpenAI giving up some of their markup (and heavy users end up SOL).

Looks like you’ve confused clarification for begging

  • There was context for neither in your original post and I personally saw a lot of similar takes like the above online - apologies for the misunderstanding. I personally thought it was pretty clear considering the parent link is a link to the API pricing and their public communication on their twitter/blogs were "Subscription usage remains unchanged".

    • Typically subscription usage follows API pricing, but that disclaimer was absent from this HN link. It's only clear if you've seen those other communications