Burning Millions of Tokens Daily? You're Basically a Free Worker for Closed Labs
dejavucoder · x · 2026-08-01
A developer points out the irony of heavy API usage: if you're burning millions of tokens a day, you're essentially acting as an unpaid open-source contributor for closed-source AI labs.
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