the gap between how AI tools market themselves and what they actually offer is getting wider

Something worth paying attention to as the AI tool space matures: the distance between what a tool claims on its landing page and what it actually delivers under real usage conditions has never been larger. "free" is the most abused word in AI tool marketing right now. it appears on almost every landing page regardless of what free actually means for that specific product. sometimes it means genuinely unlimited. sometimes it means 48 hours of real use before a paywall. sometimes it means the tool itself is free but you are paying a separate company for every token you consume anyway.