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So, OpenAI - Microsoft - signed a contract to provide their service in exchange for exposure. Not a deal I'd take, but I'm not a corporation with billions of dollars in market value and the brand name when it comes to AI.

Apple absolutely sucks when it comes to pushing small developers and artists into bad contracts. But we're talking about Microsoft here, so it's not like they have no power to push back on contract terms they don't want.

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I think this is broadly explicable by GPT etc. still being in the market growth stage of development in general. Grabbing market share and cutting off competitors is the name of the game at this point in the cycle. Once they're happy with their share they'll start tightening the bolts in the name of profit maximisation.

Yup, that seems like a reasonable explanation to me too. Corporations are, as a stereotype, greedy (or their investors are), and they would not do something like this with no reason.

OpenAI's problem is that it's not at all clear where the profit is going to come from. Average users aren't going to pay a subscription just to make the occasional query.

I think GitHub Copilot is a good LLM-based product with a fairly large market. I'm concerned that it might be the only good product out there, still.

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