We're already seeing that in a few cases but it just stands to get worse if this carries on.

Of course the question remains, who is supposed to be buying products through this system if AI systems continue to displace jobs?

This is actually not always true any more, e.g. ChatGPT 5.x can be described as snarky and condescending on a lot of topics now. It's interesting because a lot of these sort of AI romance communities really lashed out against GPT 4 being discontinued precisely because they were being wooed by its sycophancy.

I think what they are really doing is trying to carefully manage the optics of these systems such that they remain compatible with the bulk of corporate cultures, which is ultimately where they hope most of the money will come from.

Many developers even seem to predict an increase in demand in the medium to long term as AI written systems increasingly begin to need human attention.

I think the hyper enthusiastic ones are more vocal, but there's a quieter and larger group who are somewhat more measured about it.

Edit: amusing LLM bloopers may be an exception

It's probably sensible to use more strongly defined terms like humanity, self-awareness, cognitive capability, empathy and so on. And to treat them somewhat separately rather than trying to bundle it all together.

But people want there to be something special about us which can be defined as something separate from us, in a neutral, universalist sounding way which also happens to be relatively exclusive - I think because there's this desire to make the concept of a soul have an equivalent in scientific realism for the purposes of discussing philosophy in a secular way.

Today in things that the press isn't legally allowed to describe as corrupt but would probably reach the intuitive threshold for corruption for most people who this is explained to.

We'll probably see another stair step change followed by another plateauing curve of incremental improvements when that happens.