What a bizarre question. Me and many others are paying $20+ for these services. The electricity cost is already priced in and subscribers looks at the price and are fine with that price. If the price comes from dev costs, electricity, capital expenses etc. is irrelevant. There are really no alternatives either (well, I could go to 99Designs, pay $100 and wait days). People pay a lot for this and every day new use cases get discovered, so clearly more services like this get built.
Edit: " Shouldn’t we wait until the research has created an efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?"
Who is "we"? If I think I can offer a product that uses AI and after paying API requests to OpenAI I can turn a profit, I'll build it. API requests will only get cheaper, but why should I wait for that if I can turn a profit now?
Edit: " Shouldn’t we wait until the research has created an efficient architecture that is easily scalable first?"
Who is "we"? If I think I can offer a product that uses AI and after paying API requests to OpenAI I can turn a profit, I'll build it. API requests will only get cheaper, but why should I wait for that if I can turn a profit now?