That article does seem to be jumping to conclusions. I don't think you can assume that the expense for running the free models will stay constant. And they can

That article does seem to be jumping to conclusions. I don't think you can assume that the expense for running the free models will stay constant. And they can restrict the free version more if necessary, they obviously don't want to so far. It'll be interesting how this all turns out, and the business model might be difficult depending on how things develop. For example if the fair use arguments are seriously challenged, that might make things very complicated for OpenAI and add a lot of uncertainty for potential customers.