[johneth]

> but the reality (for better or worse) seems to be that AI is not going away.

AI is in a hype cycle at the moment. Once tech companies realise that they're not going to be able to recoup the billions of dollars they've dumped into the money hole, they'll either raise prices or withdraw products (or a mixture of both).

Consumers, by and large, don't like generative AI. Or at least they don't like it enough to make it pay for itself.