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simonask • yesterday at 4:13 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

If you believe that, then why aren't LLMs free to use for every person on Earth?

If you want anybody to keep making anything, including programmers, artists, and writers, you're going to have to pay them somehow.

Anthropic and OpenAI would not have a product at all without the contributions of thousands of non-consenting humans. Yet they somehow have the gall to charge customers a premium.


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maximilianburke • yesterday at 5:49 PM

Anthropic and OpenAI aren't the only ways to use LLMs. There are plenty of LLMs where you can download the weights and run them locally. There are even others that you can train yourself (see the LLM360 family).

doublepg23 • yesterday at 4:15 PM

You're paying for compute?

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behringer • yesterday at 5:41 PM

I'm all for it, free AI allotment and universal income is the future.

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