[MintsJohn]

See what is happening with StableDiffusion, a model was released opensource, performance in the same league as closed source, usable on consumer hardware and (non AI) techies start to modify it. The biggest steps/modifications are by specialists no doubt, yet still opensource, but others are happily glueing parts together to make something else. The key really seems to be access, an hosted API is rather hostile to innovation, using and especially experimenting is expensive, modification can only happen within whatever the API allows. For the tech to get bigger and more noticed faster more people need to be able to tinker with it.

[behnamoh]

The real reason LLMs are hard to sell is alignment issues. The models reflect our biases. As an app developer, are you willing to risk it? You app—using GPT-3—might output racist remarks and then you're in trouble.