[omarfarooq]

Isn't it at their cost if they're subsidizing it?

[rcxdude]

Only in the short term. A monopoly is to the disadvantage of consumers, even if they initially benefited from the predatory pricing that allowed that monopoly to take hold.

[throwaway11460]

You'd be right if they had any chance at getting a monopoly, but they don't - there are companies releasing open source models and communities improving on them.

So users get the short term and the long term benefit. Let OpenAI give us their money.