This is precisely why they should really open source their model so that anyone can download and run it on their own infrastructure. Just like google or others have done and one is free to run it on their own laptop (some even without a GPU) , on premise or on any cloud provider infrastructure. They can continue to provide a hosted service for their model but they should allow it to be downloaded just like BERT.
The more realistic scenario is they charge money to use it. A few cents per query or so and you'll cut out almost all the traffic while still keeping it available to anyone making good use of it.
I'd pay per query, but if it is per-token it's going to have to be free for what the machine says. It often repeats itself, or repeats certain phrases, or will restate an assertion it already agreed was incorrect.
By the way, one of the most popular tasks is information extraction, for example reading an invoice. This is fancy copying.
Why does using the term "open source" as a verb always sound like fingernails scratching on a chalkboard to me?