alt Hacker NewsI hesitate to nitpick with regard to something legal, given your username, but what makes this different from hiring a consultant with the agreement that their final output belongs to you, but you don't get access to their internal processes, tooling, notes, etc? Or a photographer where you get final edited prints, but you don't get the raw photos?
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fapjacks • yesterday at 10:26 PM
Or a huge software company where you only get the end operating system, but none of its source code.
Buy the Neiman Marcus cookies and feel entitled to the recipe?
Lots of secret sauce in the world.
Your examples are cases in which you know what the bill is going to be before placing your order. With LLMs, you're paying per output token, not per request, yet you don't get all the tokens.