If someone asked "I wrote some rough designs and interfaces, can you write me an app for free?" The author could easily detect it as a request for free work. But because the first part is hidden behind some ChatGPT generated code and the second part is disguised as a request for help, the author would be tricked into doing this free work, until they detected this pattern and write a blog post about it.

in volume, this turns into support writing the code.

I think of how the south park movie folks sent so much questionable content to the censors that the compromise in the end let through lots of the puppet sex.

So what was a difficult problem can quickly become insurmountable.

There's been multiple stories and posts here on HN about issues with AI generated PRs for open source repos because of people using them to game numbers or clout. This is a similar problem where you have a bunch of people using your API and then effectively trying to use you for free engineering work.

On the other hand, I look around the room I am in and it is filled mostly with "low quality" Chinese made products. While you can't compare these products to expensive, expertly crafted, high end products, there is another scaling law at play when it comes to price. The low quality Chinese products are so cheap that I don't even consider the more expensive options. When the low quality desk lamp is close enough and 20x cheaper than the well made desk lamp, there is no decision point for me.

If it breaks, I will just buy another one.