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Wrapper companies are winning these days because using the AI services directly is literally dumb, due to poor privacy and explicitly anticompetitive legal term
by bionhoward 1y ago
Wrapper companies are winning these days because using the AI services directly is literally dumb, due to poor privacy and explicitly anticompetitive legal terms. Using wrappers lets you isolate yourself from the noncompetes, ensure no model training on your content, and enjoy a significantly better user experience.
Maybe one day OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic will wake up to the fact their lame privacy takes (e.g.
- OpenAI hiding the opt out of model training for even when other people use your custom GPTs
- Gemini’s implicit human review of every conversation, Gemini breaking chat history when you opt out of brain rape,
- Anthropic’s impossible-to-logically-satisfy customer noncompete giving them an excuse to read everyone’s chats to verify they aren’t competing
) and customer noncompetes are retarded,
but until that happens, wrappers are crushing them and riding a tremendous wave of innovation without needing to waste money on the most expensive part which is training
- patrickhogan1 1y agoWrappers absolutely have value. The same as software on the OS has value. The same as workflow SaaS has value. I do not follow your point on privacy. AFAIK all tokens that perplexity sends to the foundation model APIs are stored by those companies. For example OpenAI is under court order to store everything. Is your point that because perplexity can trim off the metadata of who their customer is, the body of the content is harder to identify?