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Comment by breckenedge

3 years ago

It’s fine to use their embeddings for a proof of concept, but since you don’t own it, you probably shouldn’t rely on it because it could go away at any time.

Couldn’t you make that argument against all SaaS?

  • Well some SaaS purists may believe that to be true about Microsoft Office 365. Hence we have, Microsoft Office 2021.

    (Although there is a lot more advantages to just having Office 2021 like the flat fee)

  • Yes and no. Sometimes you get contracts that require “source code escrow” so that companies can run your source if you ever go out of business.