Comment by paganel
19 days ago
> We're literally living in the 1980s fantasy where you could talk to your computer and it had a personality
The difference is that the computer only talks back to you as code because you’re paying its owners, with you not being part of the owners. I find it really baffling that people put up with this. What will you do when Alphabet or Altman will demand 10 times the money out of you fir the privilege of their computer talking to you in programming code?
Use one of the open models that are also getting better and easier to run every year?
Which are those open ones? And how are they going to get their billions of dollars worth of investment back? Even Google Maps used to be virtually free until it wasn’t, at a fraction of the investment cost.
For starters: Qwen, GLM, Kimi, Llama.
How they run their business is none of my business. I can download the weights right now and use them as I see fit under the open source license terms.
Google Maps was never a self contained binary you could download. But even now it remains free to use.
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i have preemptively switched to Deepseek. they'll never remove the free tier because that's how they stick it to Scam Altman and the like