> I doubt it.

I don't. This is simply the "drug dealer" model where the first hit is free. They know that once people are addicted, they will keep coming back.

The question of course is, will they keep coming back? I think they very much will. There are indications that GenAI adoption is already increasing labor producitivity labor improvements at a national scale, which is quite astounding for a technology just 3 years old: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061369

Imagine a magic box where you put in some money and get more productivity back. There is no chance Capitalism (with a capital "C") is going to let such a powerful growth machine wither on the vine. This mad AI rush is all about that.