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by yjftsjthsd-h 848 days ago
> The original chef probably shouldn't have told everyone their recipes were always gonna be available to the world for free in the first place, but we were all young and dumb and idealistic and didn't think things through at some point in our lives.

And if a person had a bunch of money/funding in their youth and made extravagant promises that they later reneged on because "oopsie actually I can't afford to do what I said I would", then they would be viewed as untrustworthy and we would expect them to be abandoned by the crowd that was hanging around them in the good times. And when it's not a person but a corporation, I see no reason to be at all sympathetic.
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fragmede 848 days ago
What do we think of the "friends" that hang around during the good times, and then abandon you when you're down?

But like you pointed out, it's a corporation and it's just business. If their next model is better but isn't made available, companies will still build an AI product on top of their model and give them money for a license or API access.

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yjftsjthsd-h 848 days ago
> What do we think of the "friends" that hang around during the good times, and then abandon you when you're down?

I deliberately didn't use the word "friends"; I'm well aware that neither the users nor the corporation really care about each other in this situation. That doesn't mean that you can go back on your entire claim to fame without consequence. And it's not that the company is "down" in some "did nothing wrong but suffered problems" sense; this situation is entirely of their own making.

> But like you pointed out, it's a corporation and it's just business. If their next model is better but isn't made available, companies will still build an AI product on top of their model and give them money for a license or API access.

Well... on the one hand, yes; just business. On the other, a sensible company wouldn't build it per-se on their API (especially now that they've shown how happy they are to change little things like "core values" and "entire business model"), they would build on a standardized API (probably OpenAI; that seems to be where the ecosystem is right now) and then... well, if this company happens to be competitive then good for them. But when they aren't, as you say, it's just business.

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