In this follow-up video, musician and educator Rick Beato revisits his March prediction that AI would follow the music industry’s path toward decentralization. He points to exploding prices for SSDs (4TB drives now $2,000+) and RAM due to massive data center demand, while new hardware from AMD, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple is being built specifically to run powerful local LLMs offline. Beato highlights growing anti-AI sentiment among young people and college students who reject AI-generated content, questions the real purpose of enormous data centers amid rising surveillance (license plate cameras, facial recognition), and suggests much of what people need AI for could soon run locally without cloud dependency.
