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Your perspective is actually completely backwards on this
This process has always been accessible to everyone. You’d google basically the same words you typed into your prompt and it would bring you directly to the same block of code that everybody uses.
AI on the other hand is currently temporarily being made available for free or low cost because they are actively trying to create a cohort of users who impulsively “just reach for AI” as their first step to solving every problem.
In a few years you may find yourself praising how “accessible” it is because they occasionally run offers for a week of subscription time for $40 instead of the usual rate of $189.99/mo for entry level access. You may find yourself wondering how people ever lived without it
I run most of my AI local on my GPU only on rare moments do I bother with commercial systems.
That’s cool, does that need to be updated periodically?
Nope, the version I have on my local HD is a snapshot in time. It won't get better but no need to update.
Right, I don’t mean “is the one you’re running now going to stop being able to be used without regular updates?”, but rather, “Do you think continuing to have access to updated versions is going to be necessary for it to be useful to you?”
Really depends on the task. In these cases it's probably fine to update or swap models since this task is not critical.
Fine not* to update, you mean? Just so we’re on the same page