Came here to flag the same beat. It's wild to me Terrance Tao has to pay to talk to chatgpt, you would think it would be the other way around!

gowld 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Activating Pro" doesn't mean "paying". It means selecting a slower/smarter model.

	▲	metanonsense 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. I also only use pro in very specific situations. Not (just) because it's slow, but if the question is too simple or vague, pro responses are sometimes overfitting to the noise in my question. Until there is lots of context and the basics are laid out, high or xhigh somehow work better. Pro gives you the last 10%.

Freedom2 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How would you envision ChatGPT paying Terrence?

OpenAI giving him a fancy schmancy title to advocate for their product, such as in the way he is inadvertantly doing here.

	▲	paxys 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		He doesn’t seem the kind who would sell his credibility for a few bucks.

jephs 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenAI hiring him as a consultant, obviously, which may well be the case.

	▲	Freedom2 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's not so obvious. Taking my parent comment literally (as he said "the other way around"), one can assume that ChatGPT the platform itself would pay Terrence, rather than OpenAI.

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