"It's harder to convince other people to pay for this for me" is an insane criticism. Not every AI model needs a premium account, you can even run many excellent models locally if you don't want to pay for an internet connection.

At some point you just have to accept that yes things are easier if you have a little bit of spending money for things. That's not "sad" it's a basic fact of life.

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xnorswap 6 days ago | parent [-]

You have been mean with your interpretation of my statement.

I am not saying, "It's harder to convince other people to pay for this for me".

I am saying, "It is harder for me to pay for this for someone else".

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pc86 6 days ago | parent [-]

It probably is harder to convince others to pay for opex than capex - maybe that's a good thing, maybe not.

But it's certainly not any harder for you to donate this money to someone because they want to spend that money on tokens instead of a computer, for example.

	▲	Zambyte 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think you're still misinterpreting them. It's harder to donate tokens than it is to donate books or a computer. Not all donations are cash. Though, in a sense, I am donating tokens. I run an LLM box at my apartment, and I let some people in my community have a free account through my hosted Open WebUI.