Good thing about free AI - it's free
Bad thing about free AI - it allows for limited credits and use
Good thing - running out of credits forces you to try competitors
Bad thing - you then have to fumble and learn the new system
Good - you learn new things, new skills
Bad - you forget the old things, until you have to cycle back to them
Good - AI tools are incentivized to up their game and increase free credits lest they lose users/potential customers to competitors
So, here's the rub for the AI folks:
- offer too few credits or a weak product, then no one will use/try the AI
- offer too many credits or too powerful an AI, then no one will move from the free tier to paying
As a result, they must try to play the sweet-spot, middle-of-the-curve where they offer some credits, some abilities, but...
- don't offer too little so that your competitor outshines you and free users move away, or...
- don't offer too much so that free users never move to become paid users
This sort of (a) pendulum effect of free market forces between AI providers and (b) this tug-o-war between too little or too much services offered is beneficial to all, especially to cheap people like me.