Well, in the case of AI, they’re giving it away because they are desperate to create a market. Their hope is that you will fire your entire staff and become entirely dependent on AI for your workflow and give them a lot of money.
But the reality is nobody wants AI that is right 80% of the time, or, more problematically: wrong 20% of the time.
Even if it was right 99% of the time, it still wouldn’t be worth replacing human labor, because labor is used as a meatshield for upper management. They’ve put a lot of effort into being untouchable, and they won’t want to take the hit personally when something goes wrong. You can’t fire the ‘employee’ when it fucks up, when it’s the only one you have.
There’s meat shield and there’s also excuse-for-employment. Management hates it when people work from home because it makes it obvious how little management actually contributes. Imagine if there were no workers for them to monitor the performance of.
Well, in the case of AI, they’re giving it away because they are desperate to create a market. Their hope is that you will fire your entire staff and become entirely dependent on AI for your workflow and give them a lot of money.
But the reality is nobody wants AI that is right 80% of the time, or, more problematically: wrong 20% of the time.
Even if it was right 99% of the time, it still wouldn’t be worth replacing human labor, because labor is used as a meatshield for upper management. They’ve put a lot of effort into being untouchable, and they won’t want to take the hit personally when something goes wrong. You can’t fire the ‘employee’ when it fucks up, when it’s the only one you have.
There’s meat shield and there’s also excuse-for-employment. Management hates it when people work from home because it makes it obvious how little management actually contributes. Imagine if there were no workers for them to monitor the performance of.