Subscriber: same $200 now buys far less frontier model access than a month ago
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-11
Blogger Stewart Alsop III complains that AI subscriptions are undergoing "enshittification": the same $200 monthly spend now buys much less access to frontier models than a month ago — he can no longer use Fable or Astra, and suspects "tomfoolery" in the form of quiet quantization of older models to cut costs.
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