How might the future costs of AI restrict the market?
You may remember Uber as I do; my first ride on it came in a black Mercedes, and the drivers opened the door for me and were wearing suits. And it cost six dollars.
Uber had billions of dollars venture capital investment, and used it to undercut the existing Taxi infrastructure. They captured the market and, now, They’ve become an essential they’ve become an essential part of urban transportation and cost about four times as much as they used to.
We are now using a product that is financed by, between anthropic and open AI and scale AI, about $20 billion venture capital funds. Nobody is actually turning a profit.
So what do you expect? How much will it cost to generate 12 images to choose from in 2026? How long can your PDF be before you have to pay per message? And how clearly will the difference in peoples budgets be noticeable in their emails, social media pictures, speed of job completion?
As I am a musical artist, I am well aware that my industry is one of those very directly poised to be usurped. Even the art of teaching may become much much more affordable and just as effective with an AI in the very near future. Perhaps not, but no: piano lessons were never the whole dream to begin with. So as I become familiar with different AI and how they can serve me as a classical musician, I also feel a real anxiety about what will happen if I integrate these technologies into my workflow and, one day, cannot afford them.
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