They're giving people access to GPT-4 via Bing for free, but apparently can't accommodate paying API users!?
That makes no sense.
What makes much more sense -- especially if you listen to his interviews -- is that Sam Altman doesn't think you can be trusted with the power of GPT-4 via an API unless it has first been aligned to death.
It’s the exactly the same. If they could make 75 cents selling the compute to someone else for $1 versus not making it providing the Bing chat service, that is 75 cents they lose.
Why do you assume that the same amount of computing power would be used by someone else? There are only so many customers. You can't magically start selling more compute if you stop using it yourself.
That makes no sense.
What makes much more sense -- especially if you listen to his interviews -- is that Sam Altman doesn't think you can be trusted with the power of GPT-4 via an API unless it has first been aligned to death.