Unfortunately lots of people seem happy to trade convenience and privacy for content. I have a friend who has Amazon and I’m always annoyed that he has adverts on there despite the fact he actually pays for it! I pirate everything these days and he doesn’t particularly have any objections but streaming services are just too easy I think. He is very tech literate too, just can’t be bothered to do something else.
Big games seem to just get worse and worse these days. Graphics are almost the only thing that seem to be getting better, the rest is just full of shit like microtransactions, games full of bugs on release, content specifically partitioned off just to sell to people later…I much prefer indie and (not sure what the right term is) games that are maybe not super popular but still have enough backing and talent to be good.
Fundamentally, they cost way, way too much to run. LLMs are useful tools (I use them a bit for data analysis and coding help) and the people who use them for that kind of thing might pay the full cost in some form (not as individuals but their companies might). But they’re trying to push them into everything and people who can’t think for themselves and want them to help them write emails and such are not going to foot the bill. Not even close.
I think they’ve realised that forcing universal adoption is the only way that this could work, to get everyone hooked on it then jack up the prices. But regular consumers will never, ever be the ones paying the enormous costs of LLMs. Even companies will start to realise that there is no point paying huge amounts just for everyone to be able to outsource writing emails and basic tasks to LLMs. And short of any huge breakthrough, they are incapable of doing most jobs.