[talldayo]

No not really. "AIs" today are entirely digital LLMs that can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee already. "Collecting" AI would make absolutely no sense, especially since most of the AIs worth collecting cannot be used for commercial/museum-fee purposes. The only such thing that will exist in the future are the people that digitally archive today's model files.

[parisivy]

Music can be copied, shared and redistributed for a marginal fee. Text even more. Nevertheless, you have record and book collectors. What's the difference?

[talldayo]

Records and books get official, physical prints? People collect stamps too, but if you turned them into JPEGs those same people wouldn't care anymore.

[parisivy]

People collect video or digital art. What would be the difference in that case?

[talldayo]

In that case, they can collect whatever they want. The unique or special value of owning it in your collection is effectively nothing since I can enjoy the full-fidelity version at no cost wherever I go. This is the inherent problem with "collecting" something that is digital and can be infinitely reproduced.

I collect things because they're unique. Things that exist everywhere in abundance are not interesting to me. I could collect Coke-a-Cola bottles, but that wouldn't be special; I'd just be hoarding a bunch of trash.