Because AI is a big grift following in the footsteps of the previous major grift: consulting. The whole idea is to get you to replace permanent employees with outsourced AI (previously consultants) and make you think you’re saving tons of money. In the end, you LOSE huge amounts of expertise and become dependent on your vendor, and then the prices get jacked up. The enshittification bait and switch!
It’s something akin to the way parasitic wasps will sting their prey to paralyze them and then lay an egg on its still-living body. When the egg hatches, the wasp larva emerges and begins to devour its victim alive, from the inside.
Because AI is a big grift following in the footsteps of the previous major grift: consulting. The whole idea is to get you to replace permanent employees with outsourced AI (previously consultants) and make you think you’re saving tons of money. In the end, you LOSE huge amounts of expertise and become dependent on your vendor, and then the prices get jacked up. The enshittification bait and switch!
It’s something akin to the way parasitic wasps will sting their prey to paralyze them and then lay an egg on its still-living body. When the egg hatches, the wasp larva emerges and begins to devour its victim alive, from the inside.