There is more to cost, and cheapness, than the direct financial cost. The ecological cost is far more important. Arguably, the impacts in employment, careers,

There is more to cost, and cheapness, than the direct financial cost. The ecological cost is far more important. Arguably, the impacts in employment, careers, theft of creative works, and other damage of inexpensive LLM bots are in the short term, and terms of impacts on mere human lives, more imminently and pressingly so.