500 conversations, one-click reset when exhausted, continue freeloading. This is not some gray-area operation; it's a standard process written in Meituan's FAQ...
A 3-minute 1080p video, when split into frames, yields about 5400 images. Priced by GPT-4o's visual tokens, just 'watching' it would cost tens of millions of tokens — before even making a single cut.
A screenwriter doesn't stay on set to watch every camera after finishing the script. But today, most people's relationship with AI is exactly that—you write a 'script' (Prompt) and then stay on set the whole time, monitoring every frame.