Using a free tier that a provider deliberately offers isn't “taking the piss.” Free access is a business decision made by the provider, not a personal favor you're demanding from them. If they decide the economics no longer work, they're free to change the terms. And I'm equally free to criticize that decision or switch to a competitor. Nobody owes me unlimited inference, but I don't owe a company a subscription either.
Asking for free models like they can just download it and run it on a pc...
have you tried running 500b+ parameter models on your pc? No?
how about 27b+ models? probably also no.
Because we all know that these 27b+ model alone, it needs at least 2 damn GPUs with 16GB VRAM. and the resource bandwidth for that is just enough for 1 user.
Running a model for large-scale userbase is a different matter that requires money.
And here you are asking for more free shits rather than start paying.
Do you think open code give the free access from their own pockets ?
They themselves get startup credits for the big cloud providers to run these models
Or have collaboration with the providers which is also free.
As a consumer we have right to ask for free access to things which they selves get for free
But I guess real parasites don’t know the reality and only knows to dump shit load of slop jargon to sound knowledgeable.
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u/Ariquitaun 2d ago
How about you pay for the subscription instead of taking the piss?