The anti-AI movement is going to be massive in the near future, and the model providers are walking right into it (and encouraging it). Their PR/comms strategy is so horrendous it’s indistinguishable from sabotage. On one side you’ll have philosophers trying to give AI rights and AI researchers claiming AI is conscious (whatever that means.) The Lesswrong/Yud/Stop AI/polycule folks claiming it’s going to kill us all. Luddite protests around employment, schools fighting brain rot/cheating, “water usage” and data center claims. Data usage and privacy battles popping up all over. Regulatory capture and the fight for open models, fighting the US Government and Department of War on how it must use the models in ways approved by the model providers, Chinese companies distilling and open sourcing models. And you’ll have trough of disillusionment hitting from enterprises that suck at using AI and are spending a fortune but aren’t seeing ROI (most of them). Right as the AI companies will require more money, data, and compute to win a market they will claim is bigger than the entire US economy today. Buckle up.