I get that. But you don’t get the weights. Which means they limit what you can and can’t generate.
A friend of mine was going to build a writing assistant on top of GPT-3. She got a lot of encouragement from them. Then one day the social media storm hit OpenAI, and suddenly safety became a non-negotiable feature of their api. And along with that came the restriction “absolutely no products that can generate unlimited amounts of text, even if you can pay for the credits.”
Poof, no more business.
Imagine buying a keyboard that restricted what you could type.
All of these problems go away when you have access to the weights.
A friend of mine was going to build a writing assistant on top of GPT-3. She got a lot of encouragement from them. Then one day the social media storm hit OpenAI, and suddenly safety became a non-negotiable feature of their api. And along with that came the restriction “absolutely no products that can generate unlimited amounts of text, even if you can pay for the credits.”
Poof, no more business.
Imagine buying a keyboard that restricted what you could type.
All of these problems go away when you have access to the weights.