This a broader problem than AI. The use of other people's hardware for computing tasks will always risk the centralisation of power.
I wrote a little bit about the conflict between personal computing and timeshare computing in a recent blog post.
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I’ve recently conducted experiments with a coding agent working on the Gopher2600 code. I did not use one of those agents that require a subscription (I’ve never used one of those). I used instead an ...