I sure hope this carrot thrown down to the masses is not going to slow down open models development. When the deal looks too good to be true. You're not a cust

I sure hope this carrot thrown down to the masses is not going to slow down open models development. When the deal looks too good to be true. You're not a customer. You're a product/a resource to mine. In case of (not-at-all)OpenAI this is doing two things. Killing competition by running their services below costs(this used to be illegal even in the USA) and gathering massive amounts of human generated question/ranking data. I'm not sure about others, but I'm getting quite a few of these "which answer is better" prompts. Why do I hope for the continued progress in open models even if this is so much more powerful/cheap to run? Because when you're not a customer, but a product the inevitable enshittification of the service always ensues.