#opg $OPG @OpenGradient I used to think people cared deeply about control.

Crypto certainly made it seem that way.

Ownership, sovereignty, decentralization—these ideas sit at the center of countless conversations.

But what I keep noticing is that behavior often tells a different story.

When resources are abundant, people rarely care who controls them.

Nobody asks who owns the roads they drive on until traffic becomes a problem. Few people think about cloud infrastructure until an outage interrupts their day.

Abundance creates a strange kind of dependence.

The easier something becomes to access, the less attention people pay to the systems behind it.

That makes me wonder about AI.

Most discussions focus on model quality, but the more intelligence becomes available, the more invisible its supporting networks may become.

Maybe that is the paradox.

Success does not always increase awareness. Sometimes it eliminates it.

This is partly why OpenGradient caught my attention. Not because it represents another AI project, but because it exists within a broader shift where intelligence is starting to resemble a shared resource rather than a standalone product.

Of course, there is another possibility.

Maybe people only care about openness, ownership, and participation when those things are scarce.

If intelligence becomes abundant, will anyone still ask where it comes from?