A handful of American households pay for AI. Is the future free — or a subscription?

Kirby Plessas doesn't have an AI subscription. She has two. As a self-described technophile, she uses chatbots outside of work to plan family parties, tweak cocktail recipes and once to diagnose a broken wine cooler's motherboard. All the help Plessas gets from AI justifies the $40 a month she pays for both OpenAI's ChatGPT...