[throwaway1851]

A concern I have about OpenAI is that, if you're using their APIs to develop an application, they can mine your data to compete with you, or even beat you to market. They can do this indirectly, by sharing information with preferred business partners. The conflict of interest, combined with the lack of robust data privacy guarantees, makes me queasy.

If serving up generic LLM APIs becomes commoditized -- and I think it will -- they will want to monetize in other ways.

[illiarian]

I'd say: find a niche. Milk it for all it's worth. Be ready for access to be removed at any moment.

[precompute]

This is the allure of AI, and this is also why OpenAI chose Micro$oft, the flame extinguisher par excellence. They have struck gold, they can now monopolize the very act of writing software, nevermind if it was based on a bait-and-switch and trained on code that wasn't legally open for usage in this manner. Pretty soon, this will lead to microsoft using their black box defense to make copycats of every service possible for their own windows platform, and then put it all around a paywall.

[ChatGTP]

This is 100% my concern too, no wonder it's good at coding when it it's spitting everything you make straight back at you.

I'm not sure how to mitigate this yet? I'd say step one would be to get off GitHub, keep your innovative solutions evolving so they start to lose track of your work (if possible) and wait until open source alternatives are good enough to use.

[asdff]

Do you consent to that when you sign up for them? Its a microsoft product now and competitors to microsoft probably host their code on microsoft owned github without worry right now. Why start worrying now?

[jonathankoren]

Competitors to Microsoft buy the self hosting github option.

[gnicholas]

Can you jump back and forth between competing AIs to prevent any of them from seeing the complete picture?