Even openAI with the massive success and popularity gain can not sustain keeping it for free. The 0.02$ cents is a bargain for the value provided. OPs point wa

Even openAI with the massive success and popularity gain can not sustain keeping it for free. The 0.02$ cents is a bargain for the value provided. OPs point was most of us can't burn 10k on a internet hobby project, and it costs probably 10x-100x more to train. How would you expect to provide people a free service? People are training it to open source right now, so please be patient.