people on the steam forum seem to think that genAI is eventually going to make its way to households like printers did because technology gets smaller and cheaper over time

but the entire point of genAI is that it's expensive and impossible for individuals to run

and the reason for that is that they want to take as many things as they can from the commons, file off the serial numbers, and then resell all that stolen art and music and writing and code and so on

the super-expensive copy machine that makes it just legally different enough that it's apparently not stealing when they steal needs to be super-expensive for the scheme to work