Labs pricing to game OpenRouter data turns alt-data reflexive, observer warns
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-19
A commentator argues that OpenRouter and Vercel became useful alternative data sources because they were passive observers of AI demand. But once labs start pricing specifically to influence those channels, the data stops being purely descriptive and begins affecting the very behavior it's supposed to measure — a reflexivity problem for alt-data.
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