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People keep saying this as though it’s true. The odds that this current era of free and ubiquitous access to these frontier LLMs lasts forever are pretty slim.
How do you figure? There are open source self host able solutions right now.
Already, very few middle schoolers have the tech savvy to self-host anything. If it's not a tablet, they have trouble using it.
Add to that the possibility that the data center run on memory and processors could mean that local computing power will disappear, to be replaced with devices like Chromebooks that use corporate cloud services for everything.
You can’t run anything like a frontier model on a self hosted solution. To get anywhere close you’d have to spend thousands of dollars on hardware which obviously isn’t free, or even a viable solution for the vast majority of people, let alone these students. And the quality of output you’d get from a model running on off the shelf consumer hardware like a MacBook is much more noticeably AI generated and trivial for AI detection tools to flag.