One of the most interesting (and dismal) things about AI is that it's, at least in my experience, the first big tech thing where normal people aren't at all the target audience. Like, the internet needed you to buy in, and it gave you good reason to. It's ability to connect people was its value. Same with social media. NFTs and the Metaverse were nonsense, but they were nonsense that was at least trying to get your money. You were the suckers being asked to buy so that the people looking to sell could cash out. You were still important. With AI, it gets pushed on you constantly, but not to buy it. Selling AI directly to the consumer is just not that big a part of this market. You get pushed to use it, usually for free, so that your use can be shown to the people they're really trying to sell to. Your bosses. Investors. You are relevant pretty much entirely as product, not as end user, and that feels more naked with AI than it has with previous booms and technologies. This is a part of larger trends, obviously, and it won't be their culmination. At the end of the day, that's where the money is. It's concentrated upwards. Where money concentrates, so does attention and products.
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