> What would the explanation for charging money here be though? The user is already paying for the license and they're using their own hardware and power to do

> What would the explanation for charging money here be though? The user is already paying for the license and they're using their own hardware and power to do so. To pay for the privilege of using a very advanced AI model. That's more reasonable than paying to unlock a game character skin that's already on your SSD, and that happens millions of times a day. > It'd be like charging per use of any other advanced features in locally-run Adobe software. I don't see anything stopping this.