alt Hacker NewsWhy not a "stop killing AI" movement?
If a company deploys a paid AI model and makes people depend on it, they need to dump the weights at EOL.
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recursive • yesterday at 10:47 PM
If you paid a one-time fee for an offline model, and then you were revoked access to it, that would apply.
If you are paying an ongoing subscription for a service, I'd advise you not to rely on it too much or keep a list of alternatives.
wat10000 • yesterday at 9:40 PM
There are plenty of open weights models available already. If the ability to keep running the same model is important to you, then choose one of those.
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Where do people get ideas like this? In what world does this make sense?
You have several choices:
1. Work with a supplier and sign a contract guaranteeing support for whatever period of time you want at a mutually agreeable price
2. Host your own stack to depend on and support it for however long you want
3. Accept that you're paying for a service and that it can go away at any time.
Companies aren't obligated to support things forever and they aren't obligated to open them up when they no longer feel it's worth supporting them. Claiming they should is absurd.