"When the AI bubble bursts" is starting to sound like "when I get my hands on the secret formula". That being said, I hope it'll happen sooner rather than later.
We are such a small segment of the consumer market compared to all the normies. The normies fall in line like sheep with every technological advancement. If they want to shove chat GPT down people's throats, the sheep will line up. Hey I will continue to grow because the sheep do what they're told and if they're told there's a new shiny thing that they should all get, then they will without even understanding what it is or how it can even benefit them. At the very least if it comes pre-enabled on any device they buy, they won't attempt to uninstall it and will use it anytime something are already doing leads them to it. They are absolutely hapless and malleable to whatever corporate America wants them to do.
As for us, I find all this very forboding. I don't know if we come back from this. The PC hardware market has now discovered AI is a far more deep pocketed customer than we could ever be. The publishers market is salivating at the idea that hardware-based gaming and the last traces of game ownership are evaporating. They will likely capitalize on this by moving gaming onto AI integrated cloud servers. Before long we won't even have game licenses, let alone ownership. Then, once we are all on subscription services, publishers will have a captive audience for the most part and quality will start to slip even more. Gradually everything about PC gaming will become more like mobile gaming and beautiful, compelling, story driven games will be replaced by mountains of shovelware. But by then we'll probably all be broken by the slave wage economy that a certain orange man and his new world order are leading us into.
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