<b>Heard: free tiers are being killed by AI compute, not greed</b>

<b>Heard: free tiers are being killed by AI compute, not greed</b>
The story going around: vendors who bolted generative captions and image tools onto free plans are bleeding money per active free user now. GPU inference isn't free, and a free user who runs 50 AI captions a day costs more than a paying one. Expect the pattern — AI features yanked behind a paywall first, then the free tier shrinks to a 7-day trial. If you're running a real workflow on someone's free plan, you're the loss leader they'll cut first. Have a paid fallback picked. Watching this.