| So at least in one sense - there is a tantalizing prospect here for AI that was lost for search engines. Model weights are snapshots, and we can preserve them. It would be like if we could keep a snapshot of the search index for google every 6 months. Doesn't matter if the "current" version is garbage, if my search target exists in an older copy that's not as corrupted, and I can choose to use that instead. And at least this time around, I think this was built in from the start - you pin against a specific model for most serious business use-cases. I can store open model weights locally, cheaply. --- So I 100% agree that the ads are going to come (I can't forsee any possible alternative outside of banning ad based content promotion - which as an aside... I'm strongly in favor of proposing as serious legislation, particularly in the context of AI). But this time the ad riddled version still has to be better than the old version I can boot up and run. It'll be interesting to see how that tension plays out. |