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by isodev 60 days ago
I don’t get the surprise or discontent. People hooking themselves up to a paid SaaS that only two vendors can offer (Anthropic and OpenAI), no competition or regulation to speak of… of course they’ll do whatever they want with their plans.

Hope you can still resume working on your projects without AI.

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> Hope you can still resume working on your projects without AI.

How often does technology really move backwards? I can already run a decent local model on a spec’d out MacBook and for better or worse electronics/computers moves one direction (with minor supply chain hiccups along the way notwithstanding)

Losing trust on them not rug pulling users
If anyone was paying any attention to how corporations run, I don't see how they could have believed this would go any differently. Seriously.
If one doesn't want rug-pulls, one signals their policy makers to create regulation to prevent it. Otherwise it's just... uncapped capitalism or what's the name