This is the scary part of the whole AI situation. All these people who have abilities to set laws or be cultural tastemakers in this way just do not grasp what is happening on a technical level. They instead buy into the marketing material the ai companies push out where they try and take as much human agency out of their reporting. e.g. yesterdays "claude did this" article that was really "highly trained humans used claude to do this." Just serves to muddy the waters. I'm sure this has lead to things like layoffs too where companies believe they can get by without a lot of expertise, neglecting that these tools actually need expertise steering them to maximize them.
And of course all the ai companies are incentivized to do this. Their whole valuation depends on them being able to say their tools do this, can reduce labor and save money. If they aren't reducing labor, then that's terrible as these subscriptions are not insignificant amounts of money. It becomes less of a tool that can save money and more an actual new cost center that you really are just paying to appear to be keeping up with the joneses.
And of course all the ai companies are incentivized to do this. Their whole valuation depends on them being able to say their tools do this, can reduce labor and save money. If they aren't reducing labor, then that's terrible as these subscriptions are not insignificant amounts of money. It becomes less of a tool that can save money and more an actual new cost center that you really are just paying to appear to be keeping up with the joneses.