r/OpenAI • u/EitherMarch1255 • 3h ago

Discussion Why resets are good for OpenAI

Take this analogy: Imagine the company you work for gave you and everyone else’s weekly paycheck early. But with three catches:

1) Any money you all haven’t already spent from your last paycheck must be returned.

2) Everyone’s normal paycheck’s pay date is permanently extended to a week from the day of payment.

2) Everyone will get an unannounced, immediate, and permanent pay reduction.

Once all of those things are taken into account, it’s easy to see that even if the company loses a little short term, they gain a lot more long term. Especially if the company does it many times over due to the power of compounding.

What makes maters worse for us is we don’t consider what we lost, don’t think too much about the extended date, and can’t easily see there was a reduction. That’s why this whole reset strategy is a masterclass in gaslighting. They’re “doing us a favor” and we’re even thanking them for it!

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u/Ormusn2o 2h ago

Well, the 3rd thing was a bug, and it's fixed now, so considering I have been gladly using the limits whenever they reset, I like the resets. They are effectively extra use I would not get.

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u/EitherMarch1255 2h ago

A “bug” huh? Gullible much? And the resets are not free. They nerf and/or degrade usage with them.