Comment by friendzis

> why offering lame chat agents as a service

Because that's the only business model that the management of these model provider companies suspect to have a chance of generating income, at the current state.

> While I partially understand (but not support) the hate against AI due to possible plagiarism

There's no *possible* plagiarism, every AI slop IS result of plagiarism.

> E.g. have a strategy board that identifies possible use cases for your model, then spin off a company that just does agentic coding, music generation.

Having lame chat agents as a service does not preclude them from doing this. The fact that they are only selling the shovels should be somewhat insightful.