Yeah, brilliant isn’t it?
Whilst I’m absolutely loving this tech and have made it my business to understand it as well as I’m able and know better how to use it, it’s clear Open AI (and services like it) are really onto something here from a business perspective.
The implication is that for every post made you have to give $ to Open AI for potentially multiple reasons (summarisation, post grammar, post NSFW, embedding profile, the list goes on).
Before you know it, Open AI is getting a decent cut for all throughput on your own site. All that hard-won ad and affiliate revenue you have? Some of it is now diverted to them.
And Cloud VPS providers are going to love all the people upgrading their 4GB server to their 16GB offerings in order to use open source models locally.
That said, of course no-one is going to do this at scale unless it is more efficient to do it this way and its competitively important to do it.
And less pessimistically still, another way of looking at the services provided is a democratisation of technology that used to only be available to the big providers.
For example, semantic search is now cheaper than ever and small installations can now use powerful search at a very affordable price point. That’s surely got to be a great thing?
The power of the natural language processing is quite astonishing even in the cheaper models.
And we’ve only just started this new era, I’m sure prices will come down as competition flourishes.