On the bright side, I do think at some point after the bubble pops, we’ll have high quality open source models that you can run locally. Most other tech company business plans follow the enshittification cycle [1], but the interchangeability of LLMs makes it hard to imagine they can be monopolized in the same way.

1: I mean this in the strict sense of Cory Doctorow’s theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification?wprov=sfti1#H...)