alt Hacker NewsEven if all that were true, where is the path to profitability for OpenAI, and all the rest? If they can't pivot to making a profit, then they are going to pop, and their investors will lose all their money. That's the AI bubble... investors losing all their money.
The technology will remain, of course, just like we still have railways, and houses.
That is a valid and interesting discussion point. I do concede that OpenAI will probably not survive in the long term. Google and Microsoft on the other hand have dozens of independent verticals and revenue sources. Google can afford to be a loss leader with Gemini AI, and when every competitor goes out of business, they will jack up prices and enshittify a tool everyone depends on. Like what happened with YouTube once Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and the other sites essentially stopped being relevant.
But, and this is key, AI is not going away for as long as the potential to replace human labour remains there.