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by galistoca 3662 days ago
The fact that you're saying "it's free because we no longer need to generate revenue" is exactly the problem. It means you didn't even think this through. If you had, your answer would be different.

It's just like Twitter saying "We don't need to generate revenue directly from our API and that's why we're opening it all up because what's good for the community is what's good for us!", except that this isn't 2006 and everyone knows better.
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IshKebab 3661 days ago
It's free because Facebook wants the training data. Pretty obvious I would have thought.

If you're ok with helping Facebook improve its AI then I see no reason to worry about the fact that it is free.

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francis88 3662 days ago
Our vision is to make it easy for developers to make apps or devices that can leverage AI/NLP/Speech. As you probably know, the key is the amount of data you can collect. The more data, the better your models will be, the better you API is. When you are a startup, you need at some point to generate revenue to continue to grow/hire even if you objective is to gather more data
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