One rhetorical trick AI vendors & boosters use to steamroll over concerns - like the lack of demonstrable ROI - is to paint the LLM future as "inevitable".
It doesn't matter that the end product is worse, or that productivity gains are elusive.
Go all-in or "get left behind". It is *inevitable*
In reality, what's *inevitable* is that this technology will have to become profitable in the not-too-distant future.
The CFO has entered the chat, and we have no good answers for them.
Jason Gorman
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