> what if we don't want that?
Do we have a choice? It's being forced upon us by folks who have the power to distort any market they want. Energy prices are rising, and the PC industry is about to be destroyed by component prices. It will be dumb clients that run the software our feudal overlords of the data centers will have the grace to grant us. And the government lets it happen because it furthers their interests.
those billion people which use LLMs every week, are they all being forced to use it?
China might be the only spanner in those works, so expect further action taken against them. Most likely sanctions on their hardware