Poe, Quora’s AI chatbot platform, now offers authors of bots another chance to earn money. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo announced a new payment model on Monday, one in which creators receive payment each time a user has a conversation with one of their bots. Even more, the creators of bots can decide how much money they want to make for every communication.
How is the funding distributed? Poe chat operates on a point system. Every message costs 20 points, therefore daily usage for free Poe users is limited to 3,000 points. The amount of message points each bot has gathered is visible to the creator, who is then compensated in USD depending on the total. Only American artists may currently use the initiative, but Quora intends to make it global.
According to D’Angelo, revenue sharing is a crucial means for developers who incur expensive API fees and other costs to partially recoup their costs. He anticipates seeing revenue from bots that are centered on tutoring, knowledge, assistants, analysis, storytelling, and image creation. He believes that the money made by bot makers will enable them to create unique knowledge bases to improve their bots.
Quora has also released a Poe analytics dashboard to assist bot authors in monitoring their profits, subscribers, and communications. The dashboard’s content tries to clarify how a creator’s choice of message price influences bot usage and earnings.
Poe provides additional revenue streams in addition to the new per-message revenue scheme. You can participate in Poe’s overall earnings when people subscribe to and interact with your bots by signing up for the Creator Monetization program. Up to $100 can be earned for each subscriber and $100 for each 1,000 messages sent. “Price per message represents the next phase of our creator monetization program and an important step forward in our goal of enabling a thriving economy with a wide diversity of AI products,” D’Angelo stated.
Before building a bot on Poe, anyone interested in doing so should read the Welcome to Poe for Creators page. Prompt bots and server bots are the two types of bots you can make. A prompt bot answers to users with instructions in plain language and is constructed atop another bot, such GPT-4 or Llama 2. A unique backend process that executes certain code in response to each message powers a server bot.
