Limit behavior would be the flat line at whatever the open/surviving proprietary line would move to, so arguably this is just that case again, too.

I mostly agree, but suspect something like this up-down could happen in a "AI industry pulls a movie-pass" scenario.

I imagine it like "SOTA makes v. serious strides over open models for 2+ years, but world events cause funding/budget/compute crunches that force shutdowns & inference curtailment".

Maybe I'm too internet burned out, but even after aggressive "not interested" whack-a-mole, un-networked feeds all seem to end up resembling each other

Usually in a spiritual-if-not-literal "subway surfers rubber band ball-cutting listicle trailer slop "DAE remember ocarina of TIME??" kinda way.

I mostly just expected it was gonna be "Certified Bangers (tm)"-style low-tier engagement bait

I didn't expect them to be as bad as they were and also blatantly violate their own "no politics" rule for the articles in the grand prize and I think 4/6 of the alternative winners

The back-breaking straw for me was the article contest winners.

They were the perfect blend of Elonic "btw I run spacex" culture war and government contractor special interest slop, and Nikitaeic "le influencer lifehack" slop.

Vast and trunkless legs of stone indeed...