That’s fair. I think they are trying to utilize EEE to replace search, content creation, and more - everything AI is being shoveled into. But the main goal is just to force utilization through any means necessary and establish a new market & sales model they are unable to define.
That’s ’embrace, extend, extinguish’ for you. Question is if there is a profitable model to come. The usual economies of scale don’t seem capable of adding up in this case. Even the maniacs on Wall Street are balking.
Certainly part of the sales pitch. But so far it turns out humans are more efficient (cost less). I think the appeal to companies is the control (and the cost while it’s so heavily subsidized by the industry pushing it). The appeal to the major AI investors and execs is to… privatize the profits and socialize the losses. They will golden parachute themselves and leave the people with their mess.
Except it’s not profitable at all. It’s a huge bubble waiting to collapse.
Mobility is not high when every other company in the market does this regularly. People that just started families, moved their lives, have healthcare needs will see significant negative impact. These actions are a direct transfer of wealth from working class people to already incomprehensibly wealthy shareholders. And what’s more the actions are designed to keep people happy with what they have and reduce wages and wage growth for those that aren’t impacted. Shareholders are incentivizing immoral acts against the working class and using tech corporations to do so.