I hate this analogy. As a throwaway whimsical quip it'd be fine, but it's specious enough that I keep seeing it used earnestly by people who think that LLMs are in any way sentient or conscious, so it's lowered my tolerance for it as a topic even if you did intend it flippantly.

Clearly the author doesn't understand how capitalism works. If Apple can pick you up by the neck, turn you upside down, and shake whatever extra money it can from you then it absolutely will do so. The problem is that one indie developer doesn't have any power over Apple... so they can go fuck themselves. The developer is granted the opportunity to grovel at the feet of their betters (richers) and pray that they are allowed to keep enough of their own crop to survive the winter. If they don't survive... then some other dev will probably jump at the chance to take part in the "free market" and demonstrate their worth.

Do you think a plumber dreams about being a plumber?

Emacs has panes. Is this supposed to imitate a fraction of the holy power?

These are the 700 Actually Indians

The self hosted model has hard coded censored content.

is the linked article or the title edited? This was a post about VA GPT

What could possibly go wrong? Edit: reads like the substrate still needs to be introduced first