[ebb_earl_co]

I’m in the same boat, and what tipped me there is the ethical non-starter that OpenAI and Anthropic represent. They strip-mined the Web, ripped off copyrighted works in neat space, admitting that going through the proper channels was a waste of business resources.

They believe that the entirety of human ingenuity should be theirs at no cost, and then they have the audacity to SELL their ill-gotten collation of that knowledge back to you? All the while persuading world governments that their technology is the new operating system of the 21st century.

Give me a dystopian break, honestly.

[tjr]

On top of which, the most popular systems are proprietary applications running on someone else's machines. After everything GNU showed us for 40 years, I'm surprised programmers are so quick to hand off so much of their process to non-free SaaSS.