I don't know. We could end up either way.

This basically already happened, the web 1.0 was all open, but greed changed it all and now it's all centralized and closed.

We have the chance to keep AI apps free, as in libre, but based on the recent past, I think people will prefer to use a "free" service than to learn how to do it themselves.

my hope is that influences like bitcoin will help push the world towards open APIs

tech is deflationary after all

birdeye21

We could end up with closed sourced AI, or basically AI as a closed service, just like we have MS Office as a service.

Just because it's AI it doesn't mean it is open. We need people working on this, making it free and available, like StableDiffusion and things like [gpt4all](https://gpt4all.io/index.html)

nullama

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saloon

Very excited for AI to break down gated software. We'll have free and open access to any of these tools, probably all be baked into one simple AI interface.