I agree that: SaaS = UaaP (User as a Product). Most importantly, AI is powerful and here to stay and if it's completely controlled by the rich and powerful, then the rest of us are majorly screwed.

Small models, local models, models that anybody can deploy and control the way they see fit, PUBLIC models not controlled by the rich and powerful - these will be crucial if we're going to avoid the worst case situation.

IMHO it's better to start downloading and playing with local quantized LLMs (i barely know what i'm talking about here, i admit, but bear with me - i'm just trying to add something useful to the discussion), it's better to start taking hold of the tech and tinkering, like we did with cars when they were new, and planes, and computers, and internet ... so that hopefully there will be alternatives to the privately controlled rich-and-powerful-corpo models.