If you think it's expensive now, imagine what they'll do if they get their way and people become dependent on it. Once they've got businesses and consumers over

If you think it's expensive now, imagine what they'll do if they get their way and people become dependent on it. Once they've got businesses and consumers over a barrel the gloves will come off and they'll skip the lube. The good news is that we can decide we don't actually need it. Maybe it'll take a generation or two to recover the skills and mental abilities we lost by outsourcing everything to the bots but accepting shitty results in exchange for getting them faster and easier is a choice, and it's up to us to decide when it isn't worth it anymore. Right now, a lot of the costs (especially the environmental ones) are mostly hidden from and removed enough from users that "fast and easy" is still very tempting. People are still learning for themselves what the limitations are and how different what AI delivers is from what they were promised. There's plenty of time for people make a lot of money and cause a lot of harm before the bubble bursts, companies realize AGI isn't going to happen, and the true costs get properly factored in.