As you identified, not paying for it is a big part of the issue.

Running these things is expensive, and they're just not serving the same experience to non-paying users.

One could argue this is a bad idea on their part, letting people get a bad taste of an inferior product. And I wouldn't disagree, but I don't know what a sustainable alternative approach is.

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xigoi 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Surely the cost of sending a few HTTP requests and seeing if they 404 is negligible compared to AI inference.

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platevoltage 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I would have no issue if the free version of ChatGPT told me straight up “You gotta pay for links and sources”. It doesn’t do that.

	▲	mh- 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		100% agree with that, as I alluded to in my last sentence. And that honestly seems like it might be a good product strategy in the short term.