OpenAI will simply set up a classifier to detect if the client is livenerf, and selectively not nerf those requests.

Open models are the endgame.

This is actually why I've been reluctant to setup my own degradation trackers. I'm afraid it might be too much of a time investment for something that's much easier for them to detect.

So make it so all clients pretend to be livenerf at first. Same as the ol' pretending to be Google UA for free articles