Case in point: subscription costs for everything going up to justify the "additional value" that AI is bringing _whether you use it or not_.
This would have been an additional, more expensive, subscription tier in the past.
Anecdote: Literally this morning, krisp.ai (noise cancellation software that succumbed to slop-itis two years ago and added AI notetaker and meeting summarization stuff to their product that's really difficult to turn off, which is insulting seeing how most people purchased this tool JUST FOR NOISE CANCELLING, but I digress) sent an email to their customers (me) announcing that they would no longer offer a free tier and will, instead, offer 14-day trials with all features enabled.
Why?
"As AI has become central to everyday work, we’ve seen that most people preferred the unlimited workflow once they tried it."
This would have been an additional, more expensive, subscription tier in the past.
Anecdote: Literally this morning, krisp.ai (noise cancellation software that succumbed to slop-itis two years ago and added AI notetaker and meeting summarization stuff to their product that's really difficult to turn off, which is insulting seeing how most people purchased this tool JUST FOR NOISE CANCELLING, but I digress) sent an email to their customers (me) announcing that they would no longer offer a free tier and will, instead, offer 14-day trials with all features enabled.
Why?
"As AI has become central to everyday work, we’ve seen that most people preferred the unlimited workflow once they tried it."
This bait-and-switch era is tiring.