[biammer]

When you imagine my position, "I hate these companies for democratizing code/art", then debate that it is called a strawman logical fallacy.

Ascribing the goals of "democratize code/art" onto these companies and their products is called delusion.

I am sure the 3 letter agency directors on these company boards are thrilled you think they left their lifelong careers solely to finally realize their dream to allow you to code and "manifest your artistic ideas".

[Workaccount2]

Again, open models exist. These companies don't have a monopoly on the tech and they know it.

So maybe celebrate open/private/local models for empowering people rather than selfishly complain about it?

[icedchai]

Yes, but the quality of output from open/local models isn't anywhere close to what you get from Claude or Gemini. You need serious hardware to get anything approaching decent processing speeds or even middling quality.

It's more economical for the average person to spend $20/month on a subscription than it is for them to drop multiple thousands $ and untold hours of time experimenting. Local AI is a fun hobby though.