When the genie costs an immense amount of money to use, and produces things that aren’t worth the cost, it doesn’t need to be put back- it will be abandoned once we realize we can’t make money off of it.
That’s exactly the thing - the reason anyone besides the wealthy is able to use AI at all is because they’re letting us use it at a heavily discounted price in an attempt to figure out how to make it profitable. And they’re failing.
This may be true, but forms of social organisation can and do change and improve.
It’s not possible to put the genie back into the bottle, so to speak, when it comes to technology.
When the genie costs an immense amount of money to use, and produces things that aren’t worth the cost, it doesn’t need to be put back- it will be abandoned once we realize we can’t make money off of it.
And what if the full costs are partially (or even mostly) externalized onto someone else?
That’s exactly the thing - the reason anyone besides the wealthy is able to use AI at all is because they’re letting us use it at a heavily discounted price in an attempt to figure out how to make it profitable. And they’re failing.