The new API pricing is complete censorship of free speech, allowing corporations to silence voices

You might not care about the new cost for API usage, but it has massive implications for free speech. <br><br>With the new pricing, it becomes expensive for open source projects and Startups to use the API and build apps that utilise the API. GPTZero, for example, is built on the open-source API. The owner was forced to change from OpenAI to Anthropic, because the pricing is so high. <br><br>Startups, especially foreign startups, will struggle to build apps using the API, because their cash runway will be much shorter. <br><br>This moves control of the AI market into the hands of big Tech companies, and their influence is not a good thing for society. Big Tech might be able to support projects, but they will only support those projects that align with their censorship agenda. <br><br>The API pricing is purposefully high to prevent competition, and make it the only players in the market.