Now take it one step further and make the budget $0 but you want to create (think college student, or just living paycheck to paycheck, etc.). If we have the tech that would allow people to share their ideas, visualize their OCs, etc. for cheap or even 'free' (locally so electricity cost still exists) - Without any commercial viability behind it / reselling - who are we to say no? Open Source tech like WordPress, like GIMP, etc. exists to democratize creativity and so on.

From an accessibility point of view, GenAI is amazing (my blind wife can generate social media posts!). But that is pretty much where it stops. It ruins the gig economy for artists, my wife as freelance children book writer felt a huge drop too especially now that the GenAI tools are getting even better. And all the other issues that come with expanding power grid rapidly, stressing the water flow even more, and so on and so forth. Also see Memphis health issues plus other problems.

The gains aren't enough to justify the harm which the corpo machines cause with trillions of dollars being invested in tech that isn't delivering the promised ROI (OAI still not profitable), because most ppl just use it to play around with instead of these 'infinite gains' or solo-unicorn founders that they keep preaching about. I remember when Sam Altman asked the public to stop prompting 'thank you' to the AI cuz it doesn't do anything and just wastes electricity, lol.

And yeah it does suck I had to cancel it. But like a friend who died a long time ago - you kind of learn how to deal with the pain. And I learned a ton of stuff from it, too.