I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported

Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by gtowey on Sunday March 01, 2026 @01:02PM (#47209054)

> These trends combined will mean that eventually it will seem old-fashioned to use a remotely-hosted model for anything other than the most demanding tasks.

If that happens, then I suspect we will see legislation that makes it illegal to use a model outside of those provided by approved vendors like OpenAI. The utility value of LLMs for influencing people as a propaganda and control tool is just too high for those in power to let this technology be democratized.

Look at the state of DRM for video streaming -- how much industry effort has been put into making sure consumers don't own their content? We will see an even bigger push with self-serve models.

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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by bensyverson on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:59PM (#47211682)

I think the genie is out of the bottle—I'm not sure how you could prevent consumers from training open models using open source code, freely available datasets and GPUs that are already deployed…

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Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by api on Sunday March 01, 2026 @10:13PM (#47213424)

They already tried this with the safety panic.

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