LogFAQs > #968823749

Lopen posted...

Everything is cheap before the competitive market exists for it.

If you think this tech is going to be widespread and easy and everyone is just going to do it off of freeware licenses because we're in a pirate's utopia you're more naive than I am.

There's going to be some super overpriced proprietary way to do it well and that's going to be the standard that stomps the competition down.

I'm not following this argument at all. In reality, there's two variables: X, the quality threshold needed before it's "good enough" to replace human VAs and Y, the cost threshold needed before it's "cheap enough" to replace human VAs. It's just a race right now between a bunch of AI companies to cross X and Y first and secure widespread adoption and I don't see any reason why it can't be reached in the near future.

I'm not sure what some super overpriced proprietary way that stomps the competition has to do with anything. If some AI company creates some $1 million/year product that's extremely good, gaming companies will just shrug and go "oh cool product bro, we'll just stick with this cheaper one that's good enough for us". In reality, the AI company will probably offer a cheaper version of their high end product just so they don't immediately price out 99% of the market.

As for freeware licenses and all that, I don't think that's relevant. Even if the license is in the thousands per year, that's still cheaper than hiring VAs.