[randomwalker]

We don't expect it to be free -- please read the article. That's not the issue at all. It's like if you subscribe to a product that you need to do your job, and one day the company tells you that the product is going away in three days and that you need to switch to a different product (that isn't at all the same for your use case).

[mvuksano]

I don't think it's a smart idea to build any serious business using a tech that you can't replace. ChatGPT is great tool to help with coding for example but it's by no means substitute for an engineer. If someone starts a business by hiring a number of bootcampers and giving them ChatGPT hoping to run a serious business that way - well it's their risk to take... But no crying later...

[nomercy400]

Maybe you shouldn't build your livelihood on the products of a single for-profit company, which now shows it can remove those products on a whim.

If you want reproducible research, make your own model from scratch, or use an open model. And stop using that company's products, as they cannot be trusted to provide your business continuity.

It is like saying, we are researching Coca-Cola vs Pepsi, but your keep changing the recipe, so give us, researchers, the original recipe.