That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.
All that electricity ain't free, and the TechBros sure don't want to pay the light bill. It's not good enough that LLMs and their successors be useful and successful. Unless they change the whole economy, lots of somebodies have been burning trillions of dollars.
Its effectively a stochastic ponzii scheme where instead of being spent they just turn the money directly into entropy to noise-up all knowledge. It might genuinely ha:e been more productive to light it all on fire.
That is the end game of AI. They are free now as they are in disruption and growth phase with lots of competition. But in a few years most will have gone bust or been acquired until only 2-3 remain. Society will become dependent on them, and then they will roll out expensive subscriptions.
„Then“ they will roll out expensive subscriptions?????
ChatGPT already at $200/mo you don’t consider this expensive yet?
The free tier still exists. Soon it will be infested with ads. But they will only make this shift after getting enough people hooked.
That's why I think is important to find a way to "community" train models, so there's always a free open source alternative.
or keep a place like lemmy free of bots, so we can exchange and search information still.
Unless we get Mad Max instead.. I'm still really hopeful for mutually assured Destruction! Dystopian LamePunk isn't a future I'm onboard with.
Exactly.