It’s sad anyone with a credit card is no longer be able to explore the jagged frontier. The quirky Twitter path I followed to a career in AI (frontier LLM poasting) is closing. The best AI will be seen by fewer people and something important will be lost.
Many users mourn paywalled frontier models closing casual AI exploration and informal career paths as the end of an open era, while a few note OpenAI's efforts to improve its free tier.
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It’s sad anyone with a credit card will no longer be able to explore the jagged frontier. The quirky Twitter path I followed to a career in AI (frontier LLM poasting) is closing. The best AI will be seen by fewer people and something important will be lost.
@goodside I’m curious since you were in the industry. Do you believe the vast majority of AI researchers/engineers want this level of government oversight? Or would they prefer the frontier to be available to the public?
@goodside kek
@dj_bracken Can’t speak for the majority of researchers at labs; I’m not in SF and many months away from the industry.
I’m unsure how much I’m okay with this, personally. I think there’s too many unknowns for any strong opinion right now but we should know more soon.
@goodside Pour one out for Sydney Bing
@goodside I’m glad that OpenAI is at least trying to make its free model first class for health questions: https://openai.com/index/improving-health-intelligence-in-chatgpt/
@goodside that's not about preserving a community, it's about the economic incentives of platforms, which are finally shifting to prioritize profit ov
@goodside the frontier isn't disappearing, it's just moving behind fewer logins.
@goodside Just like what happened in the mid 2010s. Only a small few engineers at Meta and Google understood what was happening in AI.
Same thing is happening now, but everyone knows and it's way way way more powerful
@dj_bracken @goodside No. We are switching to OSS which is dominated by Chinese models if things go like that by the end of the year we will be only on mostly Chinese SOTA models
@goodside The demographic shift from curious explorers to accredited-only consumers changes the incentive structure. Open-source will carry the fringe now.
@goodside sad but true, if this happens china will be the frointer in ai not because of their good model but because their model will be avialable for whole world to access and experiment.
@goodside A sea change is definitely underway.
@goodside love seeing this.
@goodside The jagged frontier just moved from public squares to private labs, making the real gains less visible but potentially faster.
@goodside The barrier to entry is rising fast but the real loss isn't access—it's the serendipitous signal that came from unfiltered public experimentation.
@goodside that honestly feels like the end of an era for builders.