Posted by MetaWhirledPeas 2 days ago
Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?
You'll pay the fucking danegeld is what you'll do, and keep paying it, because you reorganized your entire existence around and mortgaged your future on a closed proprietary third party service's business model that is now a single point of failure for our entire technological civilization, making its market value practically infinite.
That's a collective "you" there, by the way, not "you" personally.
It has been learned very well.
The brazen violation of intellectual property was a precondition of making this technology useful. Taking the risk of breaking the law at this unprecedented scale was an informed decision made based on this very lesson.