On: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

[madelyn-goodman]

I really wonder if one way they are able to make money on it is by monetizing all the data that pours into these products by the second.

[bboygravity → madelyn-goodman]

The could probably live off of the NSA sponsoring alone.

[ddmma → bboygravity]

Spot on

[ilaksh → madelyn-goodman]

They also mention in the new API docs that they are no longer keeping data submitted to ChatGPT. Or at least not to the ChatGPT API.

[_just7_ → ilaksh]

Would probably pile up to an inhuman amount of data storage. Imagine having to pay for storing the equivalent of 1000 tokens of text within that budget of only 0.0002 dollars

[Tepix → _just7_]

That's one zero too many. Storage cost of 1000 tokens (6000 bytes) on a single HDD is $0.000000096 assuming $16/TB

[drexlspivey → madelyn-goodman]

the only one making money on this is NVIDIA

[bigfudge → drexlspivey]

Selling shovels in the goldrush…