Denuvo won't be an issue forever. AI will be able to handle it easily within a decade. Hell, AI will be able to write emulators for the PS8 by the time the PS8 comes out.
Confidently incorrect redditor. I'm sure LLMs will be able to vibes code away a closed source system with next to zero documentation by design, that uses low-level machine code, several layers of encryption, and the world's foremost obfuscation made by the people who used to crack them. Not to mention that people like Empress have a vested financial interest in NOT disclosing their evasion methods.
xAI, OpenAI, Google, and Meta would sell different narrow and general AI packages as business solutions. It runs your customer service, payroll, scheduling, marketing, etc. It would replace existing software solutions and employees. Functionality would be rented to businesses. If you're developing a mobile app and you need to use AI for some feature, you rent it from one of the big guys.
This is pretty much the same SaaS model that's been used for years. This already happens with internet, servers, cloud storage, etc. It will be AI as a service. What used to happen was that every company had their own servers or data center. Renting that stuff became a new business because 1) Rent-seeking is one of the fundamental ways to make money under capitalism 2)Companies don't want to build and maintain their own servers. If you set up your own server and install Windows, Microsoft only covers the software. If your server breaks or needs work, you have to hire a third party to fix it. If you rent cloud storage from Microsoft, they have to cover everything. This results in more uptime and less maintenance cost for the company.
As all this AI stuff gets better and becomes more ubiquitous, businesses aren't going to want to build and maintain their own models. They will want to rent them just like servers. The AI company will handle all training data and everything. It's going to skip the "setting up your own server" phase that businesses went through in the 70s-10s. It'll go straight from this new thing to SaaS. It already has in a lot of cases.
I don't take the subscriptions at face value. I think a large part of letting people buy access is to generate a little revenue for investors but also for testing. They need a lot of people to stress test these things and find all the problems. The developers can't work in isolation, they need to see how people react to their ideas. So what we have is actually an unfinished product being sold for the privilege of testing it. Once it's finished enough, they won't need as much testing. By that point, the opportunity of selling AI to other businesses and governments will far outweigh letting some lonely person do pillow talk.
Speaking of, think about Grok companion. They're already developing an independent service for AI companionship. When that product is fully developed, they will make more money selling it independently of Grok itself. So it wouldn't be included in your Grok subscription. Grok will just be a part of other products like cars, your fridge, twitter, etc. Therefore there is no need for a Grok subscription. Other companies will do this too, but probably in a more "classy" way. It's only a matter of time before the current subscription tiers are changed and then eliminated completely.