> shouldn't I get some free credits to use that model or proportionate share in the revenue stream
But you do get paid in kind - you "gave" information for the AI to train on, the aI gives you information back, contextualised to your needs. Sometimes those 1000 tokens are worth much more than $0.06
You still need to be able to pay for inference costs, it's crowded and expensive on GPUs nowadays.
Since it "gives" the same information to everyone there aren't really that many incentives for you to allow LLM to use your content. "tragedy of the commons" and all that stuff...
But you do get paid in kind - you "gave" information for the AI to train on, the aI gives you information back, contextualised to your needs. Sometimes those 1000 tokens are worth much more than $0.06
You still need to be able to pay for inference costs, it's crowded and expensive on GPUs nowadays.