GPT-3 begins to explore paid use: pay 700 yuan a month and write more than Shakespeare

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Starting from October 1st, if you want to use the GPT-3 interface, you may have to pay a fee.

Of course, if your usage is less than 100 times per month, you can probably still use the free API.

However, if it is to be used on a large scale or for experiments, then paying money is inevitable.

The current charging method is based on the number of input and output words (tokens, including words, symbols and punctuation marks) . If you spend 700 yuan per month, you can get GPT-3's output of nearly 3,000 pages of novels.

The specific pricing method is as follows:

Less than 700 yuan, and wrote more than Shakespeare

A netizen posted a form on social media. At present, if it is within the 3-month trial period or less than 100k words are used per month, the GPT-3 interface is free.

However, as long as words are input, the number of words output by GPT-3 is basically around 1k.

If you calculate it, if you use GPT-3 more than 100 times a month, it will definitely cost money.

Going up, it will cost about 6-8 cents per 1,000 words, and the more you use, the cheaper the price will be.

According to the data in the table, if 2 million words are needed per month, the price required is US$100 (equivalent to about RMB 700) ;

If you use 10 million words of data, the price will be US$400 (approximately RMB 2,800) .

Judging from the table, can we get higher priority support if we pay?

It really sounds like a subscription product.

For example, Shakespeare's entire works are about 900,000 words, which adds up to 1.2 million words including punctuation.

In other words, for less than 700 yuan, GPT-3 can write more than all the works of Shakespeare .

At present, the charging situation starting from October 1st is still for internal beta users, which means that it will not be open to the public for the time being.

But the issue of charging itself is enough to spark discussion among netizens.

Netizen: Is it profitable to hire AI labor?

Discussions among netizens mainly focused on whether GPT-3 is worth the price.

Some netizens expressed reservations, saying that it depends on the capabilities of GPT-3.

If GPT-3 has the ability to analyze unstructured text (such as hospital medical records) , then hiring a GPT-3 will be more valuable than hiring a person.

From a mathematical perspective, if GPT-3 is good at extracting data points from messy text that can be stored in a database, then even if it costs a few dollars to analyze 10,000 words, it will be much cheaper than hiring a person.

Of course, some netizens are tempted by such a price and say that there must be someone willing to pay for it.

I bet there are people willing to pay a lot of money for it. After all, in some industries, it can bring incredible productivity.

I even want to get the internal beta qualification and use it to write novels.

I would love to get the internal beta test qualification and use it to write novels. Moreover, I am also willing to pay the subscription price. Can you take me along to play? (Love)

But for those internal test users who provided GPT-3 interface websites to the outside world free of charge, or made some free software based on it, such news was tantamount to a critical blow.

For example, some netizens said that this would have a huge impact on AI Dungeon (a free text adventure game) based on OpenAI .

Think about it, AI Dungeon needs 1,000 words to generate each story. If it charges for it, wouldn't it be unsustainable?

There is also a user who has obtained the qualification for the internal test and turned the access interface of GPT-3 into a website for netizens to use for free.

This user's website has about 750,000 visits per month. After filtering out invalid input, there are about 400,000 outputs, and each output takes up about 1k words.

If charges begin on October 1, he will face a monthly payment of at least US$ 4,000 (approximately RMB 28,000) .

Unfortunately, judging by the number of visitors, the website I opened for you will probably have to be shut down on October 1st... (:P)

So, what do you think about charging for GPT-3?

The GPT-3 free interface website that can be used before October 1st:
https://philosopherai.com/

AI text adventure game:
https://play.aidungeon.io/main/newGame

Reference links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/ikorgs/oa_api_preliminary_beta_pricing_announced/
https://twitter.com/sonnylazuardi/status/1301045589619040256