But at this point it should be (maybe not OpenAI but some other organization). OpenAI is close to becoming a necessity and a human right just like education so it should be 100% free and accessible at some point.
"OpenAI is close to becoming a necessity and a human right" is the wildest claim I have heard yet about AI. (Though it's possible that maybe someday I will agree with this).
I say this calmly, it's wild for you because you're probably part of the privileged group of people who can sustain themselves with a steady job and has no problem paying for it.
Like having access to HN via some form of Internet access?
Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to others, and people who read and write on the internet about privilege seem blinkered, to me, about how they'd sound to someone who walks two miles for water polluted by the mining of rare earth elements.
See my edit. I meant AI generally (such as in AI-aided/enhanced learning, communication, teaching etc. etc.) not OpenAI the company per see. For disabled people (like me) first and foremost but right after the general populace as well.
I disagree. What gives you the idea that any software is a necessity? We've (modern humans) been around for 200,000+ years and software (and LLMs for less than a tenth of the time that software has been around) has existed for ~0.04% of that time.
Oxygen (in its molecular, 02 form) is a necessity. Water is a necessity. Nutrition of some sort is a necessity.
Pretty much everything else is a nice-to-have (with some things like money and shelter being important, but as we see from the poverty and homelessness around the world, definitely not a necessity).
I'd posit that LLMs are helpful and sometimes even useful. But necessary? I think not.
I'd note that I'm not dismissing LLMs, nor am I trying to dump on you. But the idea that any software is necessary is ridiculous on its face.
The right to AI is different than the right to free hosted inference.
Anyone can download a model and use it completely offline, or hosted on your own server. And there's a lot of effort to make these models work on devices that don't have much computing power (even phones [0]), which increases access even more.
Since this is the world we currently live in, what are you suggesting should change?
