Enterprise plans pay API costs, they're only subsidizing individual accounts and that's only because they have to compete with open-source models.

When they are successful at making those illegal/inaccessible, both Anthropic and ChatGPT are going to rip the band-aid off and inference will only be sold to those that can afford it.

The good ole American way.

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drnick1 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> When they are successful at making those illegal/inaccessible

This would be like trying to outlaw Linux or peer-to-peer file sharing. It's technically possible to write and pass a law, but it's basically impossible to enforce it.

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switchbak 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Enough to make it a non-started at the organizations that pay their bills. Everyone else isn't big enough to matter.

	▲	trollbridge 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Going to be an interesting world where big enterprises have to spend 100X the cost for the same value of AI as startups and small businesses.