{"id":906,"date":"2026-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/in-defense-of-not-paying-for-ai-fastco\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:00:00","slug":"in-defense-of-not-paying-for-ai-fastco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/27\/in-defense-of-not-paying-for-ai-fastco\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91499445\/in-defense-of-not-paying-for-ai?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss\">In defense of not paying for AI (FastCo)<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free versions of ChatGPT and Claude are fine, no matter what AI boosters tell you.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t want to be left behind by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/section\/artificial-intelligence\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"AI\">AI<\/a> revolution, you really need to start paying for it.<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91499445\/in-defense-of-not-paying-for-ai?partner=rss&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&amp;utm_content=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free versions of ChatGPT and Claude are fine, no matter what AI boosters tell you.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t want to be left behind by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/section\/artificial-intelligence\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"AI\">AI<\/a> revolution, you really need to start paying for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","tag-published","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}