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🤖 The Real Cost of Free AI Chatbots
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December 19, 2025
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0:34Now Playing“If you are not paying, you are the product.”
It's an old saying — and it applies to AI chatbots like never before. Our guest Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the NYT podcast Hard Fork, explains how companies use your input to train powerful new Large Language Models (LLMs) and aim to convert you into a paying user.
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