People (I mean individuals) are paying them money because subscription costs are ridiculously subsidized, which effectively means that Anthropic is paying people money to use them.
I'm pretty (from talking to people) that they're not subsidised in the simple sense. They are:
* low/no margin, unlike the API which is very high margin
* gym-membership subsidised - most subscribers don't max them out, mainly us coders are being "subsidised" from users just using it as a research chatbot
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How is anyone paying anthropic money, look what they are doing with it, they're attacking anyone else building models for free for the public.
Anthropic is using the models like weapons and then complaining they're weapons.
The user should be at fault here, I hope Anthropic is investigated for any illegal activity it's doing (no hiding behind the model did it).
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* low/no margin, unlike the API which is very high margin
* gym-membership subsidised - most subscribers don't max them out, mainly us coders are being "subsidised" from users just using it as a research chatbot