Not just AI. Every subscription in general can be a time bomb. You grow more dependent on it, and the provider can disappear or take it away at any moment.

I would expand this to any dumped product or service. Whenever the real cost isn't paid now it will sometime in future or will collapse. Just look at how extractive food delivery and taxis are. Start with dumping. Then be last one to survive and fleece all the sides you can.