I don’t think ai will ever be neutral/benevolent. It’s too easy for fascists and the like to try and manipulate matters through it.

I personally would rather see it go away or at the very least take a backseat.

Reddit has been trying to block crawlers, including the internet archive, so they can sell their data to commercial AI companies.

Except for legal liability, the other solution is good-enough models too cheap to run locally to justify paying hosting. Like prepackaged stand-alone AI on-site servers which are cheaper after electric costs than subscriptions.