[mikaeluman]

It was unavoidable and inevitable.

Still it saddens me that we will be sitting here in a years time and discuss our experiences of being fed ads served as "objective information".

Today if I ask: "should I buy a store product or just use raw material X?" , gpt and others will gladly say you might as well just use the raw product.

Pretty sure that will change very quickly.

[mpalmer]

The metered APIs aren't going anywhere... one hopes

[bentcorner]

While that's true even today there really isn't a product that wraps that API that is as simple to use as any of the major chat applications.

I've used OpenUI and it's fine but it's incredibly fiddly to configure and web integration is almost nonexistent (this was as of a few months ago so maybe it's better today).

[conception]

I find https://msty.ai to be significantly better than any of the major chat applications. It has a ton of qol improvements.

[vSanjo]

I find TypingMind outstanding.

[immibis]

Many businesses both cost you money and also show ads.

[fennecbutt]

I mean the problem is advertising and capitalism right?

So are all the comments addressing those? Nah it's all just people bitching about AI.