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They might if the technology suddenly becomes prohibitively expensive to use. The cost of LLMs is hugely subsidized right now because AI companies know that if they passed the real cost of compute on to their customers, no one would continue to use their products. And the problem is getting worse. New models are using MORE computation, not less, and AI companies are continuing to burn mountains of cash 'hyper scaling' instead of trying to figure out how to bring costs down.
And that's fine for them while they are still investors for them to grift... but the VC money won't last forever. Eventually investors are going to expect some sort of return on investment, and most big investors are already massively over-leveraged on AI, so every quarter there's less and less VC cash to go around.
So some day soon when the investment well runs dry, AI companies will have no choice but to start passing their costs onto their customers, and we'll all finally see just how grossly expensive this technology really is.