The other thing to consider is that token usage is hopefully at its highest cost/token.

With the price of energy skyrocketing and a chip shortage constricting supplies? Doubtful.

We’re looking at an extremely unregulated, poorly thought out, gold-rush type market that is trying to cash in as much as possible before reality comes in to smash it in the face.

But, like with the financial crisis, nobody really expects the Tech Giants to be the ones that feel the pain. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will die richer than the Pharaohs, no matter what happens next. It's the hillbilly schlubs in Jackson, Mississippi and Bastrop, Texas who are going to be eating shit when the turd pile finally tips over.