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This paper investigates whether Large Language Models exhibit the same usage-based linguistic productivity constraints (entrenchment and preemption) as humans, finding that models can reproduce coercion but fail to apply statistical preemption to avoid overgeneralization.
GitHub Copilot's new usage-based pricing model causes sticker shock among users, with some burning through a month's credits within a day. The change ends the previous subsidy model that kept costs low for heavy users.
The article argues that most AI chat app pricing models are unsustainable because they hide complex costs like retries, context growth, and multi-model calls behind flat subscriptions, and suggests usage-based pricing with limits and overages is more viable.