Do you pay for an AI account
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Anonymous
| Wondering if I should pay for an account at Chat, Claude, Gemini, etc as I heard it helps with privacy and the ability to customize parameters. I heard a talk on AI recently and they were saying everyone should pay. |
Anonymous
| You need to read the terms of service, because they're all different, but the short answer is nothing you feed them is private. Some will say they don't train models on the data of paying customers, which is not the same thing as being private. |
Anonymous
AI bros think everyone should pay for AI? Tell me more. |
Anonymous
I think there is some firewalling of data if you are paying as a business. I have google workspace and it says my gemini interactions stay within my org. If businesses found their data leaking it would be a big deal. https://support.google.com/a/answer/15706919?hl=en Most people are paying for high level models, more tokens, not enterprise security. |
Anonymous
| You definitely should if you plan to use it. It is more secure (though not enterprise level) but also you then get access to the newest models which are months ahead of the free ones. You’ll actually see the benefits of AI using the newer models because the improvements over the old versions are huge |
Anonymous
| Lol 😂 |
Anonymous
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Nothing is private really.
I use Gemini and ChatGPT. I am thinking of paying for GPT because it is very good for dealing with computer stuff (like the horror shows that Win 11 Patch Tuesdays have become) and I run out of free prompts. |
Anonymous
There is a limit? |
Anonymous
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I subscribe to ChatGPT and Claude, also use Gemini in free mode. The latter is quite generous with freebies. I often use them to cross-check each other and they all have their strengths and weaknesses.
I do a lot of techie stuff which they can be quite good at, especially if I need a quick script for something. Don’t take their word as gospel, they are often confidently wrong. Claude is the least generous and will cut you off even with a subscription. But it’s good if you do any coding stuff. |
Anonymous
| I use Claude - pay for it and Claude Code which is frankly astounding. And depressing. But that's not the question. |
Anonymous
My dad couldn't handle Microsoft Windows 11 as a senior. We got him a Chromebook. My son took dad's Windows computer and went Linux. I think it's time to boycott Microsoft for good. |
Anonymous
I wish i could get my family to accept Linux. It makes a cheap celeron laptop a race car. |
Anonymous
Agreed, they have totally gone down the toilet in so many ways. I converted my laptop into dual boot Windows and Linux but haven’t used the Windows partition in a few months. Unfortunately Linux is well beyond the average user so not an option for most. |
Anonymous
| yes our family has claude, some vibe coding thing my 13 year old uses, chatgpt and cursor |
Anonymous
| What areas is Claude better than ChatGPT? |