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Don't pay for access to AI. There are plenty of free ones.
No product is free, if you don't pay anything, you are the product being sold.
You 'pay' these companies by providing them with training data for their LLMs / you are the thing they are trained on. You as a user provide an endless supply of metadata they can sell.
Just don't use the slop bot, it's literally as easy as that.
You say this on a free social media ...
AI isn't a 'product', by the way. It is a technology. You can run it on your own device.
I can run many forms of technology on my own devices, that doesn't stop them from being products.