I was paying openai, but with all the current politics, it looks like I’m probably going to switch to Anthropic.
I don’t have the resources or patience to run my own.
I’ve paid for a few months of Midjourney to create some portraits for a few gaming characters. That’s about it.
oh the mistake of writing “AI” in lemmy lol. I have made this mistake before, you’ll recover
I don’t pay for a single one, I’ll use their free services for a specific question to have it summarize the internet basically. I try and avoid chatgpt.
At work we have an internal AI system, and Claude. I utilize both of these to make my workload smoother - but have been finding myself just coding more often than using them because they almost all eventually produce garbage and refuse to listen when you say it’s wrong.
People pay for this shite? 🤣
All of them. Not directly, but RAM and SSD price explosions hurt. Also buying electricity for my home heater from the same market as billion dollar data centers hurt too
They’d have to pay ME to use their bullshit, and it wouldn’t be cheap.
eh, i figure we’ll all pay for it some day, when an overzealous capitalist AI harvests the poor for raw material.
I run it locally when needed. Can do LLMs and ImageGen, and i’m not stuck with those companies. Installation for LLMs was stupid easy, Imagegen was a bit more involved. Since I’m a Gamer, I already need a beefy GPU, so it’s nice to have a second use for my hardware.
Not much. But I did pay actual money for Sid Meier’s CivilizationⓇ VI, which includes AI that controls the computer players. That’s the one that comes to mind just because its performance was so amazingly weak.
Claude plans for both personal and corporate. My personal is the $100 plan.
And then I have a small amount of credits for API usage on Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter.
Haven’t really jumped on the Cursor train and I think I have Jetbrains AI product sub that I should probably cancel.
Had Github Copilot for a bit a while back but canceled that.
Mind my asking what you do that requires the high tier Claude?
Edit: what you use it for, that is :x
I use the desktop/mobile app for general purpose questions/search/brainstorming.
If that’s all I needed it for I’d be on the $20 plan.
I also use Claude Code for general troubleshooting and some Ansible provisioning assistance on a home network/lab - and some light coding.
Professionally it’s similar usage - but I’m using Claude Code a lot more heavily in writing code and troubleshooting – and am semi-frequently hitting usage limits.
Thank you for actually answering OPs original question and the follow up.
I get the Proton AI with my subscription but barely use it
lumo. it’s (begrudgingly) been useful a few times
I keep forgetting Proton has an LLM model available
I pay for Copilot because I have an Office subscription for the family. I never asked for Copilot to be included in it, but here we are.
What do you need from Office that you pay for it? There are great free alternatives
There is a way to downgrade to Office Family Classic that removes the co-pilot features and is cheaper.
Oooh gonna look that up tx
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It’s ridiculous and should be illegal. I hope you get it figured out!
Did your price change when Copilot got included?
I don’t think so
I’m in IT, my company is trying to offer it as a service and sell it. I’m fully against it, but can’t voice my opinion since I do like my job and what I do. It really sucks.
Perplexity
I pay nothing and just rotate between gmail accounts when one hits a usage limit. I have about a dozen accounts so between all of them i get about as many tokens as i would a single paid account.
I started doing it first with Cursor AI, and i still use that too, but now googles Anti-gravity gives access to Claude and the usage limits are separate from the limits for Gemini. With all of it combined I have more then enough usage to do whatever i want without paying any of the corps a dime.
