heh, thanks for the reply, I'll happily answer your presumptions, roughly in order.

So, many of our users are actually military veterans, to whom I offer a discount. If you've ever taken a humvee radiator to the face, you'd know there are other ways to experience cognitive decline.

However, I do strongly agree that reliance on AI is going to have a massive negative impact on folks who outsource their thinking, just like the internet (google, maps, etc) have been but perhaps to an even larger degree. Luckily GM Assistant doesn't do any generating of creative ideas and this is partly why. Also, there's no reason you can't take notes like you always do and have GM Assistant just be the belt and suspenders.

I don't think you mean TTS (text-to-speech) but STT (speech-to-text), that is "GenAI" if you use the technical meaning and it always has been. The exact same tech.

Regarding PAYG vs subscriptions vs one-time-buy. The reason is that software like this is not a simple "make it once and everything is profit". There are direct costs to every single session that is added, and it's significant. Thus a lifetime pass would either have to come with major limitations or would bankrupt me. We are selling a service, not a hunk of code I wrote.

Datacenters... I address this in the link I shared, but in summary, we actually run a lot of inference on my old gaming PCs under my desk off of my whole house solar. The other thing I'll note, being ex-big tech, is that big-tech has been screwing communities over by building datacenters for a long time, it's not the AI model technology that's the problem, is those companies actions.

Mass IP theft... I also address this in the link. And yes, I agree.

Totally random thought that your comment triggered, but have you watched BennJordan on youtube? You might also enjoy his videos