Comment by NitpickLawyer

> only those in control of training the handful of "big popular AI models" are the gatekeepers of all knowledge.

I think that's certainly the case now, and it will be for a while, but slowly we're getting closer to that "AI personal assistant" sci-fi inspired future, where everything runs on "your" infra and gathers data / answers questions locally. You'd still need "raw" data access for that. A way to micro-pay for that would certainly help, imo.