# We cannot rely on centralized AI overlords

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-06
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Building a React App live with AI (Greg Osuri)
- **Watch at:** 01:13:10 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupQI6jnRs&t=4390s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-08-06-we-cannot-rely-on-centralized-ai-overlords-4j5v/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "We cannot rely on centralized AI overlords," Building a React App live with AI (Greg Osuri), 6 Aug 2024, 01:13:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JupQI6jnRs&t=4390s

## Quote — verbatim

> This is the problem with relying on centralized AI — this is a live example. We cannot rely on centralized overlords because we can't get things done. If only Anthropic would allow me to have unlimited API access — I mean, I'm paying for the API, it's not free, but still they want to limit me \[to\] a million tokens per day, or else \[I\] have to contact the sales people.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Ending the stream early after exhausting API limits; earlier at [01:07:48] he says "that's why we cannot survive on centralized AI... this is horrible."