I don’t get how we are in the year 2025, most advanced technology we have ever had in human existence… And everything is behind a paywall. Literally everything. Whenever I search the web for a solution as an individual person, not a business or Mega Corporation, just a simple person trying to do a few creative things… Everything is behind a paywall

For example, I want to create a logo image for a personal Tableau dashboard that has a transparent background. Just a struggling person trying to find work and show what I’m capable of making. You know what I find? Everything is behind a payroll. One of the first results on Google that can actually help you is canva! But everything on canva is behind a paywall! You want to resize your document? Transparent background? Paywall. Okay then what if I go to a website to remove the background? There’s lots of them on the Internet that say they are free. Sorry, those are all behind paywalls as well. You have to upload your image to them and then by credits but they don’t tell you that when you get to the website…

Also, editing PDF files… Year 2025, you cannot possibly edit a PDF file for free, and most of the PDF readers out there or PDF viewers have some sort of clickbait this is free! Except that is not free, it’s behind a paywall and you’ll find that out eventually…

I think we are all very excited to see what AI can finally do for Humanity because I am so damn sick of everything being

    • Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago
      1. Ads
      2. make the free version of the service thats highly functional on its own and that make the REALLY cool features something you have to buy. I much prefer it if websites or apps just had one-time purchases rather than forcing me to pay rent money every damn month just to have a sparkly font color over my name.

      Some products do this thing where you help out with certain stuff while using it, they give you coins that allow you to engage with more stuff. Voice.AI is like that, if you activate it in settings, it lets you use your pc as a way to train the AI once its idle in exchange for coins