@coldclimate Setting aside the important ethical and environmental considerations, what worries me is the dependency that is being created around these tools. My fear is that we will reach a point where only a very small number of companies can decide to raise prices or shut down services, and no one (or almost no one) will be able to do much of anything anymore. Once those skills are lost, it will be virtually impossible to recover them. Open Source models, although evolving, are not yet even close to the usability of the latest closed models, and there is little interest in their development (information I've been getting from developers). The conditions for a perfect storm.