I don’t get this idea that AI will go away at some point. We’ll still have all the self-hostable models even if there are no newly trained models for a while. There will be companies that make money hosting those and selling tokens at a profit. We already have a pretty good idea what that looks like.

We’ll also have companies like Google and Meta where AI is not their main product, who get competitive benefit out of offering AI.

We’ll have companies trying to figure out how to update and train models more cheaply.

People aren’t just going to walk away from it all.