1) for people who want to make money using AI but can’t afford to pay for a LLM or servers, they can push that cost to the end user.
2) for people who want to generate porn or spam (probably, also to make money)
The privacy thing is complete nonsense. If you want a private server, rent your own private server. If you’re worried AWS is spying on you, you’re paranoid.
This is about money, making money and being cheap, not about good will.
So, you’re right; from a consumer perspective it’s pretty meaningless.
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There are two compelling reasons:
1) for people who want to make money using AI but can’t afford to pay for a LLM or servers, they can push that cost to the end user.
2) for people who want to generate porn or spam (probably, also to make money)
The privacy thing is complete nonsense. If you want a private server, rent your own private server. If you’re worried AWS is spying on you, you’re paranoid.
This is about money, making money and being cheap, not about good will.
So, you’re right; from a consumer perspective it’s pretty meaningless.