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Exactly. Though with inference cost they're still only making money on enterprise use.

Many companies would say that's the best kind of risk-reward balance. For them, anyway.

Because we're all paying for LLM access for shits and giggles, and not because we're getting actual value from it.

I don't care why you pay for LLM access, it's still spamming my online forums and codebases.

LLMs don't spam on their own. Take it up with people who wield them.

Nah, it's the technology's fault for enabling it.

They kinda do though, in that instances have been observed to send unrequited messages even when the person/people in charge of some account didn't expressly ask the models to do so.

For my own use of LLMs, I do try to avoid anything which I know has a risk the artefacts they produce may end up DoSing or spamming, and I've avoided the OpenClaw-type pattern for a broader range of reasons of which this is simply one tiny part, but I'm not absolutely confident I could avoid this even in the code coming out of the free tier of the web chat interfaces except by checking every single line of output every single time.