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They'll just make it free to education establishments. Eventually the next generation will only know it.
As they did with Windows and Office tools.
That was an effective long-term ploy but I don't think it would work here - AI is a steam train running on pure cash to heat the boiler
In this case they will also employ the age old enshitification strategy. Instead of (or along with) filling it with advertisements, they can simply drop the model parameters to make it cheaper while pushing it to more and more sloppy content.
Smaller models are incredibly cheap to run, and if people are convinced they want slop, they win. That is why AI is paired with the larger scale project of dumbing down everything.