Ask HN: 有人能解释一下为什么 OpenAI 的额度会过期吗？
2 分•作者: jemiluv8•19 天前
我最近才惊讶地发现，大约一年前购买的一些积分因为过期而无法使用。这让我有点担忧，因为这似乎迫使我必须尽快使用这些积分。
在我生活的地区，这种策略被电信公司用来销售“宽带数据”。你花大约 1 美元购买互联网套餐，有效期大约只有一周。这种时间限制抬高了这些购买的“实际”价格。最终，如果一周后你还剩下 1GB 的数据，它就全部消失了，你不得不再次购买——从而进一步推动销售。由于我们谈论的是一个第三世界国家，电信公司往往是寡头垄断，并且倾向于彼此之间进行某种形式的价格勾结，所以这通常被认为是“事情就是这样”。
但我一直觉得这不公平，因为人们应该被允许花时间使用他们购买的任何产品。
我想知道这是否是所有 LLM API 的普遍做法？我是否遗漏了什么？事情真的应该这样吗？我似乎无法理解为什么“已购买”的 LLM 积分应该有有效期——无论多么慷慨。尤其是在相同的积分可以用来访问他们任何可用的模型时。
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I was surprised to find out only recently that some credits I bought about a year a go were unusable because they had expired. I find this a bit concerning because it seems as though I'm being forced to use the credits.<p>In my part of the world, that tactic is used by telcos to sell "broadband data". You buy internet bundle of about $1 and they give you expiry of about a week. This drives up the "real" price of these purchases because of the time constraint. Ultimately, if you had 1GB of data left after a week, it is all gone and you have to purchase again - further driving sales. Since this is a third world country we're talking about and telco's tend to be oligopolies and tend to also do some form of price collusion among themselves, it was generally accepted as "just how things were".<p>But I always found it to be unfair because people should be allowed to take their time consuming whatever product they purchased.<p>I wonder if this is general practice for all llm apis? Am I missing something? Is this really how things should be? I can't seem to fathom why "purchased" llm credits should have an expiry date - however generous. Especially when the same credits can be used to access any of their available models.