[throwaway24778]

I don't and would never pay for an LLM, but presumably they also want for force ads down your throat eventually, yea? Hard to do if you're just selling API access.

[bilekas]

But the idea of an API is more to encourage creativity and other people/companies building products and services on or around your systems. This used to be seen as a positive as it would mean you were an important cog in other peoples products and so more users, exposure, brand awareness etc.

[FeepingCreature]

Anthropic do of course sell API access and you can of course use any product with it.

[k8sToGo]

Compared to the heavily subsidized subscriptions, I don't think API is sold at loss.

Also why would you create a throwaway for this question? Are you trying to rage bait?

[bilekas]

> Also why would you create a throwaway for this question? Are you trying to rage bait?

You should never question anyone's route to privacy :)

[throwaway24778]

> Are you trying to rage bait?

If you have to ask, it's probably not rage bait. I'm just too lazy to come up with a username.

[butlike]

1:29 until you're able to push to the `main` branch.

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