> The point I'm wanting to make is that users will go to whoever has the best model. So, the winning strategy is whatever strategy allows your model to compound in quality faster and to continue to compound that growth in quality for longer.
Best only works till second best is "close enough" and cheaper/free
It's likely they will all be free in time. That's kind of the problem underlying the consternation here.
It's the internet all over again. How do you win the race to the bottom?
Once there
How do you compete effectively with free? Microsoft and Amazon will have billions on billions coming in to float their free offerings for what is effectively eternity in business terms. Probably Google and Meta will as well. What happens to everyone else?
I think you have to be in some niche market where you can charge. Because for everyone else, free is unsustainable.
Porn maybe? But there will be way too many competitors there. So something more like medical. Or semiconductors. Or construction or something.
> It's likely they will all be free in time. That's kind of the problem underlying the consternation here.
That what I was getting to. Paid only makes sense if you're willing to provide stuff that OSS lacks, which is either "super specialized things not many people want to OSS" or, well good looking UI... (there seem to be massive lack of any UI/UX people vs developers in near anything OSS).
AI is neither so it will be commoditized and mostly run in few OSS projects, and probably for the best, the only thing worse than anyone having access to "near free copywriter bot that will write about anything you tell it to" is only people with money having access and control over it.
Best only works till second best is "close enough" and cheaper/free