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Get You a Model: If You're Not Paying, You're Missing 90% Of Improvements

A Substack post argues that anyone in the developed world who uses Google search more than five times a day should pay for at least one subscription from the three major AI labs, claiming that non-paying users miss 90% of model improvements. The post, written primarily for a general audience, asserts that the mundane utility of frontier models is increasing rapidly, a point the author believes even some AI doomers have not fully grasped.

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Get You a Model: If You're Not Paying, You're Missing 90% Of Improvements
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https://dangeroussincerity.substack.com/p/get-yourself-a-modelI'd think this is an audience who don't need to be convinced that the mundane utility of frontier models is increasing fast, but some private discussion indicated that not everyone is convinced even among AI doomers, so here's a link. It's written mostly for an audience of normies, but this is the core claim, and I stand by it:

But everyone in the developed world,

everyonewho uses Google search more than five times a day, should be paying for at least one [of the three big lab model subscriptions].

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