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The original was posted on /r/machinelearning by /u/AlphaSquared_io on 2024-04-01 19:31:44.

Can we talk about how OpenAI specifically is being shoved down our throats by every single workplace, client, and their grandma right now? The number of requests I’m getting of to specifically work with the OpenAI API has just been skyrocketing lately. What are your guys’ experience with this? How do you navigate it? I’ve tried pitching other alternatives but nope, they’re hellbent on using OpenAI.

OpenAI was founded for the explicit purpose of democratizing access to AI and acting as a counterbalance to the closed off world of big tech by developing open source tools. They have abandoned this idea entirely. In this space, the one approach that is horrifying (and the one that OpenAI was LITERALLY created to prevent) is a singular or oligarchy of for profit corporations making this decision for us.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that their models were trained using the work of unassuming individuals who will never see a penny for it.

I feel forced to work with this abomination of a model, but I also have no real choice. This is how many of us pay our bills. Am I alone in this? Should I just swallow my pride?