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  • grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️grob@mstdn.social
    Sep 9, 2026, 6:26 PM

    @wim_v12e you mean, if I register for a LLM provider I need to fill in payment info that gets sold? Or I get charged?

    Not sure I understand your answer 😅

    I was referring to free LLM services without registration if that makes sense. I think someone has to pay for those tokens, someone must benefit from them being used and paid for. Or is it all still a battle for market domination? In which case I'll happily burn tokens and a hole in Altman's bottom line. But am I though, or am I helping Sam?

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  • Wim🧮wim_v12e@scholar.social
    Sep 9, 2026, 7:16 PM

    @grob This is if you are using something like OpenClaw, which uses external services. It can for example book you a hotel room, but only if you provide your card details. Stripe has an API for this.

    If a paid external service is used by the "LLM" itself (because those things are now also agents rather than pure LLMs), then of course the LLM service provider will need agreements with providers of those non-free services.

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  • Wim🧮wim_v12e@scholar.social
    Sep 9, 2026, 7:18 PM

    @grob In any case, if you use them, you are helping the AI company, even if they run the service at a loss, because you help with adoption.

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