>>17243232Initially yes, but I think open-source AIs will pop up eventually.
We already have Stable Diffusion for images and it easily is the best generator available.
As for other types of AI, it's only a matter of time.
Even from a business perspective an open-source AI is more lucrative, no usage/licensing fees, absolute freedom for customisability and no usage restrictions, in case you'd want to do something the owning company might not like.
There's also the aspect of use cases, more people know more.
Take SD as an example again, while Dall-E and Midjourney are stuck with just text2img and img2img, SD has stuff like ControlNet, custom models, Deforum, etc. Same can be true for text generators and others.
This in turn makes it, again, more lucrative for business, because someone might create an extension they didn't even realize might be useful to them.
