Even if you’re right, no one should be making a decision of enrolling into those programs because maybe, with zero indication they’ll be renewed again in six months.

You know what they could also do? Stop the programs for new enrolments next month. Or if if they renew them like you said, it could be with new conditions which exclude people currently on them.

There are too many unknowns, and giving these companies the benefit of the doubt that they’ll give more instead of taking more goes counter to everything they showed so far.

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simonw a day ago | parent | next [-]

Is your argument here that you shouldn't accept the free trial because you might find it useful and then be trapped into paying for more of it later?

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latexr a day ago | parent [-]

No, my argument is that your “but neither of them have explicitly said that there won't be options to renew for another six months” point is not something anyone should realistically be counting on, and is not a valid counter argument to your parent post of “Isn't the Claude one only for a few months?”.

We should be discussing what is factual now, not be making up scenarios which could maybe happen but have zero indication that they will.

	▲	simonw a day ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't say that I thought they would likely extend it, but I stand by my statement that it's a possibility. Neither company have expressed that the six month thing is a hard limit. The fact that OpenAI shipped their version within two weeks of Anthropic's announcement suggests to me that they're competing with each other for credibility with the open source community. (Obviously if you make decisions based on the assumption that the program will be expanded later you're not acting rationally.)

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localuser13 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

If I understand correctly, they are literally giving things away for free for a 6 months period and we are complaining that they don't promise it stays free forever?

	▲	latexr a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, you did not understand correctly. They are not “literally giving things away for free”, they are providing a very conditional free trial, which is a business decision and not anything new. Then a commenter speculated they might extend that program because they didn’t say they won’t and I pointed out it doesn’t make sense to assume they will. No one on this immediate thread made any complaint, we’re discussing the facts of the offering.