How do you expect the spend & COGS for free LLM inference to be funded? For users who don't want to pay, or maybe can't pay?

It has begun ever since they nerfed chatgpt4 before releasing 4o

In the past month local models have been ramping up in major way meanwhile the namesake providers have upped prices, went offline randomly, and started doing slimier and slimier things.

I really think the future is local compute. Or at least self hosted models.

The arc of the technological universe is short, but it bends toward enshitification.