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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

and doesn't receive any wages or sick leave, obviously.

Well, not exactly, but these AI response systems are not cheap to run, you either:

A: Need to use a third party which charges you a non-trivial amount of money per response

B: Host it yourself on the cloud, which charges you a non-trivial amount of money for computation costs

C: Host it yourself bare metal, which costs a VERY non-trivial amount of front for hardware and still costs you a nontrivial (but lower amount) monthly for electricity/maint

But yeah no... they are a shit tonne cheaper than people though. So it is that the horse is being replaced by the streetcar.