These are definitely very significant risks. But some of those risks are hard to avoid unless you train your own model, which can be prohibitively expensive. S

These are definitely very significant risks. But some of those risks are hard to avoid unless you train your own model, which can be prohibitively expensive. Say you're building on top of llama and Facebook decides not to update it any more or change the licensing terms (again). Say you're building on some other "open source" model and that project dies. At least you can keep running the existing model rather than getting locked out over night. That's definitely much better. At least it's survivable. But you would still have to find alternatives and review/scrap all your custom prompts.