[rustcleaner]

>only once it will prove inpossible [sic] to extract trillions from consumers.

I am spreading a message of peace and sovereignty:

Never subscribe. Never. Subscribe. Ever.

Starve them out. Make their lenders take 95% haircuts.

Just don't subscribe, whatever you do!

[aerhardt]

This is utopian thinking. The products are way too useful to not subscribe. The argument presupposes the worst-case negative-utility in the long-term scenario (AI companies will create a totalitarian nightmare) and pits it against the radical usefulness that the products are creating right now.

[hirako2000]

They aren't too good to not subscribe.

I've used over a trillion tokens in the last few years with zero subscription. In fact I have one with deepseek, spend 13 cents to test some automation. The rest is consumed free of charge to bleed the bleeders.

If/when they ALL enforce paid subscriptions, I will only run inference locally. By then consumer hardware will equal frontier models in term of speed and performance.