I constantly find myself discovering new 90s Boombap, Hip Hop beats and tracks from underground artists. Unfortunately a ton of these aren't on Spotify, although they exist on YouTube in near endless capacity.
A lot of my favorite songs of all time aren't great just because they sound nice, but they are great because they have immense meaning. Alice in Chains is one of the all time greatest bands and their lyrical messaging means so much, with the passing of Layne from a drug overdose the songs have a raw, visceral feeling. Many of their songs are explaining the struggle, they are deeply personal. That is lost with AI Music.
I don't think we are doing very well in preventing "large scale" conflict between World Powers.
Russia v. Ukraine war has half a million deaths on the Russian side alone. Is this large scale?
Maynard lets everyone record the last song and 99% of people respect the request for no phones. It's not even disrespectful for the band, or yourself, its rude to the person behind you.
If production can reach high enough levels, why not sell overseas?
Not to mention, week on week more and more tokens are being processed via OpenRouter. [0]. The number keeps going up, with no end in sight in my opinion, if the China models continue offering cheaper inference, whilst tailing behind not too far, the line will keep going up.
[0] - https://openrouter.ai/rankings
OpenRouter is not the only "router" type AI company. More fixed providers like OpenCode and commandcode are offering subscription services on open/china models, likely consuming billions of tokens each. Who know how many tokens are being process directly against Deekseek and Kimi's APIs.
/model in OpenCode
There is no "moat" for me. Using the standard chat applications as a normal conversational/question has a little bit of moat as its able to cross reference existing conversations, but I disable that mostly anyways to prevent as much data retention as possible.
If it was "that simple" everyone would be making money on the stock market, but its not.