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You just explicitly claimed that Chrome has definitively a viable business model as a stand-alone company ("Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Definitely."). Now you claim the opposite...
Is the argument also as strong for the other cases?
It is explicitly unofficial.
But what when salaries would increase by factor 100-1000? This would make AI use even cheaper. (About as realistic...)
> And then the cloud stuff goes away because all the vendors go broke, despite the price rises, and you have to switch to using local models?
In this case there will be cheap inference hardware on the market as someone will sell all those assets. They don't disappear when a company goes broke (object permanence).
We could also speculate what would happen if all hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, ...) would suddenly be broke. Again, about as realistic a scenario.
Maybe you have to switch to FreeDOS?
Wouldn't it be better to reduce slop, no matter how it was produced, instead of only AI-generated contributions, including non-slop contributions?