Sand is the world's second most used natural resource and sand usable for concrete gets even illegally removed all over the world nowadays.
So to continue your analogy, I made my part of the beach accessible for visitors to enjoy, but certain people think they can carry it away for their own purpose ...
that grain of sand used to bring traffic, now it doesn't. it's pretty much an economic catastrophe for those who relied on it. and it's not free to provide the data to those who will replace you - they abuse your servers while doing it.
wasn't this the attention sink concept to some degree? I mean it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that if the latency overhead isn't signifigant, that frontier models start adopting similar to DeepSeek OCR tech
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