There will be some project sometime in the future where it is going to be just a project decentralizing AI power one day, but that's just not the one we are dealing with at the moment and it will be some other time. Which is why it's going to be something that doesn't exist today. If that happens, and there is a brand new huge one eventually, then it will be great for the long term.
However, what we have right now is not that great because the ones that already exist do not have that power or fame or attention. For this to work, something has to do a lot better before we can actually get a good result, and right now we do not have that kind of power on anything at the moment to get that type of attention or result at all.
AI also requires data centers for its research and must be constantly updated. It requires a lot of power to operate. Without power to manage it, AI will not function.
On the other hand, AI also needs to provide benefits to its contributors, just as Bitcoin fairly rewards miners. If such principles can be implemented for the successful development of decentralized AI, then we can safely say it is possible.
Definitely! If AI doesn’t reward contributors then it people might actually lost interest, the recent one i’m aware of is DecentralGPT which rewarded its contributors with its token $DGC which got listed on Bitget. Also, i’m sure these AI projects would have made necessary requirements to function well but the issue which i think might arise is how well the ‘decentralization’ is accepted by people.