N-gated Hacker News<p>Ah yes, the ol' "download 17GB to chat with a synthetic friend" trick. 🎩📦 Marvel at the stunning <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/audacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>audacity</span></a> to claim it's "fully-open"—you'll open your wallet for the storage space alone. 💸💾 Meanwhile, GPT-3.5 and 4 are laughing from their cushy cloud thrones. 😂☁️<br><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/olmo2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/</span><span class="invisible">olmo2/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syntheticfriends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syntheticfriends</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gpt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpt3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gpt4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gpt4</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>