Many home users aren't going to pony up the big bux..unless the costs are baked into company billing via monopolies.
-I've seen some incredible music and home movies produced which would be impossible without a major studio budget. Goodbye Hollywood.
-And photo restoration expands into recreating entire moving 3D environments while 'bringing people back to life', perhaps in an interactive way.
-Traffic accident recreation perhaps.
-Architecture without the architect. Law without the lawyer. Medicine without the thousands employed when local robots can do surgery.
-Travel distant cities using photogrammetry and every geo-location photo available. Virtual goggles. Walk. Drive. Fly around like superman.
-Thousands of other uses.
But it's still a solution waiting for a problem.
Right now humans are in the way.
And energy costs will only get worse until entire grids are swallowed up and the locals can't keep the heat on..
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollars-a-year/
All told, OpenAI’s day-to-day “loss from operations” increased from $8.78 billion in 2024 to $20.92 billion in 2025, a concerning direction for a company that is telling investors it hopes to be profitable by 2030. But measured as a percentage of revenues, the company’s operating losses slightly improved year to year, from 237 percent in 2024 to 160 percent in 2025.