Companies Are Realizing They're Spending a Fortune on AI Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets
“As consumer-grade AI agents make headlines for troubling capers, practical AI at the enterprise level remains stunted.”
What happened
Futurism reports that big companies are trimming their AI budgets after finding that much of the spending goes on staff producing low-effort, error-filled documents. It cites Reuters reporting that Meta is scaling back plans to lay off staff and replace them with AI agents.