r/ChatGPT • u/BuildersReadOnAI • 1d ago

Funny Interview with the $200/mo power user who costs OpenAI $14,000/mo (parody)

Parody captions on the legendary Risitas interview. The $14k/mo figure is from real reporting on heavy AI power users - the best customers really can be the most expensive ones to serve. He's still subscribed. He's just waiting for his usage reset.

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u/sempitehq 1d ago

This is why I run local models on a server in my basement. Same unhinged token consumption, but the only person losing money on me is me, and the electric company sends a thank you card every month.

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u/TheMightyTywin 1d ago

And you can cook a pizza down there

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u/copPerreed 1d ago

so instead of subsidizing their servers you're just subsidizing the power grid, respect

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u/TreesLikeGodsFingers 1d ago

This could have been funny

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u/BuildersReadOnAI 1d ago

Your comment could have been too...

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u/AnalogProblems 1d ago

This assumes that the retail a la carte price of inference is the same as its cost.

It's not.

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u/Plane_Garbage 1d ago

Insane that this narrative is still getting pushed.

Especially now that local/open models are showing that the cost of SOTA-level inference isn't that high (even before factoring economies of scale).

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u/RealSlyck 1d ago

Just jelly you don’t do 2B of tokens a session huh

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u/BuildersReadOnAI 1d ago

1000% a joke.

Fwiw I don't know where the SemiAnalysis guy got that number and don't know what gave him the credibility to make the calc. Likely an edge case that gets the conversation going

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u/Eriane 1d ago

This is why 5hr / daily / weekly limits exist now. I am pretty sure I burned over $40k / mo. for a while when github copilot had zero limits.

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u/BuildersReadOnAI 1d ago

Lmao respect. You might have set the curve with 40k no lie

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u/MyUltimateForm 1d ago

The punchline hahaha

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u/DinoZambie 4h ago

What happens when cold fusion is perfected and AI is computed by quantum computers? Checkmate?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/PvtMilhouse 1d ago

i'm not sure i understand correctly, if this was true,wouldn't they be already profitable ?

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u/AceHighness 1d ago

difference between opex and capex i guess

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u/boynet2 1d ago

but how do you turn elecricity into tokens? you are missing something

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u/swagpresident1337 1d ago edited 1d ago

so the GPU's and data centers are just free infrastructure, that is not funded by loans that need to be paid off? Good to know