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Err, the LLM vendors are selling it for money.

yeah but that doesn't count because .. checks notes .. I don't know, leave the AI companies alone, ok?

no, they're not selling you an image, they're selling you "tokens"

You're confusing their arbitrary monopoly money for their product.

The product is the output, not the tokens.

The product is the thing that makes the output. You aren't buying the output.

Of course you are, they don't sell you the model itself. That's fiercely protected. They clearly sell you it's output.