> How Big AI plans to profit from this inter­me­di­a­tion is an open ques­tion. One AI company has suggested taking a cut of AI-assisted discov­eries. The logis­tics and legal­i­ties would be boggling. Details—what­ever.

Interesting if they pull it off, because clearly they did not have the logistics to pay the people whose IP they used to power the LLMs.

> For now, AI compa­nies largely agree on the first step: make workers depen­dent on AI to do their jobs, just as tech fore­bears made workers depen­dent on a certain soft­ware program to share a file, or on a certain website to have friends. This time, however, the soft­ware ulti­mately consumes the worker.