Like many, Johnathan, an economics student, used the public domain AI as a hyper-intelligent general assistant and library.

  “I’m sorry, the system has exceeded capacity.”

  “Dammit!” Johnathan pounded on his desk. “I have an important assignment due tomorrow morning!”

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  He clicked various menus and found a feedback section where he wrote an extensive essay on queuing, fairness, rationing, marketing, business models, and the need to manage everyone’s access.

  He spell-checked and grammar-checked his suggestion.

  “Looks good.”

  Once he clicked submit, three dots recounted left to right, left to right, left to right …

  “I’m sorry, the system has exceeded capacity.”