"Banned means economically useless": open-source advocates warn of AI TOS exile
wen_ragnarok · x · 2026-10-25
boneGPT paints a scenario of a fully AI-integrated future where being banned makes you economically useless — everyone around you is superhuman, while you're cut off for a TOS violation. Conclusion: open source is the only protection for freedom and economic viability. Quoted context: user log4j was banned after local-only reverse engineering work tripped OpenAI's daybreak detection, losing $500 and banked resets — and responded by buying three more machines to finish a local cluster.
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