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Tell HN: GenAI companies stopped gatekeeping product access

by wsgeorge on 3/4/25, 11:01 PM with 2 comments

Today OpenAI lets you try ChatGPT even before you logging in. Meta surfaced their models on WhatsApp. You can use a bit of Grok and Perplexity without giving up any personal information.

Huge contrast from Q1 of 2023, when LLamA leaked; when you had to go through hoops just to test drive an open model in a chat setting.

I'm just glad the market is more open now. :)

  • by da5is on 3/4/25, 11:45 PM

    They’ve ran out of internet and need more training data.

  • by toomuchtodo on 3/4/25, 11:31 PM

    Ask yourself, “Why would they do this?”