请问HN：有人能解释一下为什么OpenAI的积分会过期吗？
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。这让我有些担忧，因为这似乎是在强迫我使用这些积分。
在我所在的地区，电信公司常用这种策略来销售“宽带数据”。你花大约1美元购买一个互联网套餐，他们会给你大约一周的有效期。这种时间限制实际上抬高了这些购买的“真实”价格。最终，如果你在一周后还剩下1GB的数据，那就全没了，你必须再次购买——这进一步推动了销售。由于我们讨论的是一个第三世界国家，而电信公司往往是寡头垄断，并且通常会在价格上进行某种形式的串通，因此人们普遍接受了“事情就是这样”的说法。
但我一直觉得这不公平，因为人们应该有时间来消耗他们购买的产品。
我想知道这是否是所有大型语言模型（LLM）API的普遍做法？我是不是遗漏了什么？这真的是应该这样吗？我无法理解为什么“购买的”LLM积分会有过期日期——无论多么宽松。特别是当这些积分可以用来访问他们所有可用的模型时。
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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.