I'm generally against the use of
AI, from the energy hungry
resource, to alienating people,
creating more content that we
could ever need to numb our
society even further.

In the recent days, I've seen an
interesting reversal of power. AI
in the hands of programmer
reverse engineering the world.

Adobe being one of the first
target. A programmer re-created
the suite in Rust. Explaining his
understandable frustration with
Adobe.

Then came the Sony PS5. Which has
been hacked again and again,
proving how enjoyable the device
could be without all it's
corporate limitation.

Now I'm observing the blooming of
a simple synth, the FM-1 from
M-Vave. I am unsure if it was
goal of the company, but the
firmware was easy to reprogram I
assume, because at the time of
writing this, there are over 37
firmware available for the
device. Transforming the
instrument in any instrument you
can think of. Using AI to code
a musical instrument, okay, I
have to try it out now. 

Everything is being reverse
engineered, and the consumer is
telling the market:

"What you are offering us isn't
that special anymore, we can
make these ourselves, and if you
try to lock us down in some
leasing or software limitation,
we'll hack it"

How will the market react?

You cannot software lock a device
anymore. I wonder how long before
they use AI to fix their John
Deer tractor.

The market can counter attack,
using AI to lock their hardware
even more. Which will end up
being very costly, and the
hackers of the world will have
too much fun trying to unlock
these device each time. Or the
market can re-adjust its
position. You can't lock a whole
culture down that uses tools as
powerful as AI. So you better
work with it. Create tools that
are easy to hack and
unhack. Focus on quality of the
hardware. Contribute to the open
source projects. Create standards
that everyone use, both hardware
and software.

There could also be more law
being passed on the criminality
of using AI. Making it illegal to
run local models. Locking the
online models so they can't be
used for software development.
But I am not sure how quick the
market can turn around. I wonder
how deep of a cut the use of AI
will do in our consumerist
market?