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Cory Doctorow made a very specific point about this on This Week in Tech 1074, in the context of comparing the growth of the Internet with the current AI market:
I think it sums up how unsustainable this is very nicely.
That will be interesting to see how this difference impacts the bubble explosion.
Yes, although the reality today is that you have to spend a decent amount of money to be on the web effectively. You could run a webpage on an RPi on your home network, but that won't do for much more than a few visitors a day, and it involves several compromises and some security risks.
There isn't really an equivalent to the web's interoperability with these AI systems, except maybe if you're using it to control smart home devices.
Yeah, although being able to run OpenClaw &etc locally is interesting. Most people won't ever be able to train their own models, but at least self-hosting some of them is an option.