AI Doesn't Have ROI
A lot of the AI argument right now comes down to a weird mismatch. The public story is abundance, efficiency, and inevitability. The financial story looks a lot murkier once you ask who pays, what gets measured, and whether any of it actually holds up without subsidies.
ROI and the accountability problem
Token billing reveals the real price
Why subscriptions look fragile
Compute costs are not falling the way the story says
Is this worse than Dot Com
Dark output and the job replacement story
What leadership still hasn't answered
Source:
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At — AI Doesn't Have ROI
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