• ID10T@programming.dev
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    22 hours ago

    The whole “AI Credit” thing did strike me as odd to even introduce. They mention a few times that 1 AI Credit = $0.01, but then do the whole pricing table in $/1M tokens.

    The only place I saw them even use “AI Credits” as a unit was to say the $10/month plan includes 1000 AI Credits. Why even introduce a whole new unit if you only use it to say your $10 monthly plan includes $10 of usage?

    I suspect the answer is so that they can later muddy the waters by changing the number of included credits to be less than you’re paying monthly without directly saying “you’re now paying $20/month for $10 of usage”

    I guess it is coming from the same people who came up with the world’s most inscrutable billing scheme for compute…

    • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      I mean, even then, they could increase the price per token, if they want to hand out fewer tokens for the price paid.

      They could make this work like a prepaid SIM card, where you charge it with e.g. $10 and then you can use it until the $10 are used up.
      Instead, they make it work like in-game currencies in scammy free-to-play games. Except that they didn’t choose a confusing conversion rate, for some reason…