@john_darksoul They're using drug dealer tactics, as always... offer it cheap, establish a dependence, and then maximize the profit margin. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper than people or not because by the time companies figure out that it isn't and won't, it'll still be cheaper than eliminating the dependence (rehiring, retraining, restructuring, etc). At some point, AI competition will die down, the ones that are left can stop investing so much, and prices will go up (enshittification).