I suspect the cost will rise and we'll start seeing much less of it. As the free tier gets smaller and less useful, I think we'll see the pool of people who use AI casually start to shrink.

Seeing which use-cases make it through will certainly be interesting.

Nobody knows if it's "here to stay". https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ Some of us are still consciously choosing a life with as little slop as possible.

Not trying to "make it go away", though that'd be great, just making another irrelevant technology that I dont interact with.

No, we can absolutely reject it and destroy it at a fundamental level. LLMs are deeply unprofitable and only exist because of insane amounts of money being set on fire by the richest assholes you know to support stochastic parrots. Otherwise the sheer resource cost would've devoured the companies multiple times other.

The goal by all of these companies is to force you to pay for and eat the slop. That's why they keep inserting it into every subscription, every single app and program you use, and directly on the OS itself. It's like the Sacklers pushing opioids but directly in the open, with similar effects on vulnerable people.