Because that's been the playbook of every tech company for a decade or two. It should be our expectation that this stuff will get an expensive rug pull the instant the companies can get away with it.
Yes, this exactly.
People in this thread are discussing it as if it is a question of pure economics. It's not! It's a question of "how much do we think we can get away with charging"
> the instant the companies can get away with it
LLMs have no lock in. Switching costs are zero. It's really not clear that instant will ever come