I will admit i thought the same initially. But the article does say
> ChatGPT Enterprise already does not use business data, including inputs or outputs, to train or improve OpenAI models. The same safeguards will apply to federal use.
It would make sense for a company to pay the government for the privilege of inserting themselves into the data flow.
By charging an extremely low amount, they position it as something which should be paid for while removing the actual payment friction.
It’s all obviously strategic lock-in. One hopes the government is smart enough to know that and account for it, but we are all understandably very cynical about the government’s ability to function reasonably.
Lots of cool training data to collect too.