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1. get to enjoy an open network of networks

2. people share, get creative and get some sort of credit for it

3. scrap it all and feed it a large deep neural network and be a worse version of all this content but easily accessible

4. creative people don't see a reason to keep sharing what they have (no new public books, no new open source projects, ...)

5. get stuck in an AI world of recycled content

People blindly following OpenAI products have a very shortsighted vision. What they did is neither innovative, nor extraordinary, they got the data, convinced some victims into a kickstart, made sure the hardware supports the bigger deep neural network that can do the job. Check out the OpenAI alternative solutions, it's not hard.