The trick with free is you need to leverage the free part to increase the value of something that is scarce and that you control, which is not easily copied.
Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Free Gone Wrong... Or Free Done Wrong
AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them Casey Newton – The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote. xkcd, on statistics in Sports Commentary
I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns. Ted Chiang arguing that No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, but more importantly… Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology,
However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I