As someone who has both repeatedly written that I value the better LLMs as if they were a paid intern (so €$£1000/month at least), and yet who gets so much from the free tier* that I won't bother paying for a subscription:
I've seen quite a few cases where expensive non-functional things that experts demonstrate don't work, keep making money.
My mum was very fond of homeopathic pills and Bach flower tinctures, for example.
* 3.5 was competent enough to write a WebUI for the API so I've got the fancy stuff anyway as PAYG when I want it.
As someone who has both repeatedly written that I value the better LLMs as if they were a paid intern (so €$£1000/month at least), and yet who gets so much from the free tier* that I won't bother paying for a subscription:
I've seen quite a few cases where expensive non-functional things that experts demonstrate don't work, keep making money.
My mum was very fond of homeopathic pills and Bach flower tinctures, for example.
* 3.5 was competent enough to write a WebUI for the API so I've got the fancy stuff anyway as PAYG when I want it.