This. AI is not and will not be profitable. It's afloat because of an investor circlejerk. Once they get off then it's over. A waiting game.

There are cheaper services that use Chinese models like Deepseek, but even then I doubt they will become mainstream when the bubble bursts and if the US decides no one will use LLMs anymore because they're not selling subscriptions for them. I guess only people savvy enough to run local LLMs or get services from elsewhere would keep using them, hopefully with more caution (yeah this is cope)

It won't sadly. I can run many on my computer. They'll still be available, even if every server-based one goes down.