At least if they switch from parasocial relationships with influencers to parasocial relationships with open source bots they won't be financially exploited by the influencers. GPT doesn't have anything to sell us.
Except the vast majority of people aren't able to host such a bot themselves, so it seems inevitable that paid hosting services for such bots will arise. Then there's just the potential for financial exploitation at greater scale.
Right now it's a prototype, but in the future local LLMs will be everywhere.
I would call it Top W University.
Lol ...(worth the downvotes).
Just you wait and see.
It will either find something to sell us, or we will be giving it ourselves to sell.
"If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer"