In a somewhat wonderful/horrible irony, I’m reading reports about proprietary software being decoded by AI and repackaged by hackers - for free. PlayStation, Adobe, Salesforce, there’s other versions out there that don’t cost anything. I guess a bit like how you can get free versions of Excel, Word etc that aren’t MS but essentially do the same thing. But instead of taking years to develop they’re taking hours.
So digital piracy just got a lot bigger than Napster.
I wonder how the tech giants are going to feel about AI when they can’t sell their toys anymore? Maybe the subscription revenue of AI platforms will be so high they don’t care anymore. Maybe it’s the trade off. Bundled software for the masses so they can keep their AI tech to build better weapons.