{"id":150938,"date":"2026-05-07T01:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150938"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:59:51","slug":"bytedances-ai-subscription-gamble-chatbot-faces-reality-check-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150938","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance\u2019s AI subscription gamble: chatbot faces reality check in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChloe Wang, a 26-year-old fund employee in Shenzhen, said she \u201cdefinitely wouldn\u2019t\u201d pay for a subscription to Doubao, Chinese tech giant ByteDance\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot, at its proposed price.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m willing to pay for AI tools, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth that much \u2013 even though I find Doubao relatively easy to use among domestic AI products,\u201d said Wang, who uses the app occasionally for work-related queries.<br \/>\n\u201cIf I had to pay for an AI tool as a productivity aid, I\u2019d probably rather&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3352661\/bytedances-ai-subscription-gamble-chatbot-faces-reality-check-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostChloe Wang, a 26-year-old fund employee in Shenzhen, said she \u201cdefinitely wouldn\u2019t\u201d pay for a subscription to Doubao, Chinese tech giant ByteDance\u2019s artificial intelligence&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}