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Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it

Companies are discovering that AI is expensive when employees actually use it, as the cost of running AI tools for tasks like generating presentations from PDFs adds up. The AI bubble relies on the hope that customers will eventually pay for these high costs.

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The artificial intelligence revolution has reached the point where management begs employees to stop feeding PDFs into the robot so it can burp out PowerPoint decks nobody wanted in the first place.

The entire AI bubble is built on the idea that someday, somehow, customers will pay for the insane costs of using AI. — Read the rest

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