DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
on 03 Oct 11:57
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I doubt IT admins are surprised. Frustrated, yes.
I feel like this will not last long. Itâs one thing to rape end users, but with the growing corporate backlash against AI, I think angry money will win the day, and Microsoft will back down.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
on 03 Oct 12:17
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Nah, as long as Microsoft dangles their bullshit stats about improved productivity in front of managers and as long as the competition is using AI then the bosses will keep trying to shoehorn it in to their companies that donât need it.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
on 03 Oct 12:05
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Someone should tell them that freemium doesnât work well when thereâs a linear increase in cost for every additional query, and when the business value for your exceptionally expensive product is nebulous at best.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com
on 03 Oct 12:36
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Thatâs why theyâre pushing so hard now. They canât keep it free forever. They need you to become reliant upon it to perform even the simplest of tasks now so when they monetize usage it has already become a must have. That way they can count on your subscription no matter what.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world
on 03 Oct 13:50
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The Nestle effect
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 03 Oct 14:43
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Crack trap house strategy
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
on 04 Oct 00:26
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Thatâs just Microsoftâs standard practice. Thatâs why we all know itâs coming.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
on 03 Oct 16:52
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Welcome to the AI bubble. Itâs going to be a wild ride possibly taking other sectors if not a country or two with it when it falls from grace.
I donât think these lemmings cheering for the bubble pop understand how bad this will be. Gotta happen sometime, better sooner than later, but fuck me itâs going to be disastrous. Reminds of of October, 1929.
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world
on 03 Oct 12:35
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âUse this until youâre dependant on it, then weâll jack the price up 400%! Oh, and we want to sell all of your work data, and use it to train our shitty LLMâs.â
Copilot is disabled by default in my company. And thereâs literally a new policy/guideline about the use of AI/LLM in the workplace being released every month because of how rapid changes are happening. Not that employees arenât allowed to use them at all, but are restricted in what they are allowed to use.
Their logic is:
Workplaces arenât buying copilot licenses
So make a good price on personal licenses
If price is the barrier, maybe bring down that $30 license fee for business (which is on top of the M365 license) to see if adoption grows.
This is not going to win any friends in the business world and will most likely result in blanket bans of AI tools in the workplace to counteract this.
I work for very large IT company and they are upgrading to Windows 11 because they have to but AI tools like co-pilot are being blocked by default in the image we push to all users.
This is resulted in a very funny knowledge base article which basically tells the support staff to tell the users to go do one if they complain about it.
Customers in this case being other businesses, so no itâs not public.
Basically it just boils down to telling them that corporate policy is not to make use of AI because of data collection concerns and to emphatically remind them that attempting to circumvent these policies is against corporate procedures.
Technically itâs no different than just taking internal documents and dumping them online.
Well co-pilot sends all itâs data to Microsoft as is.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world
on 04 Oct 06:26
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The issue there is that even at that pricepoint, Microsoft is still operating CoPilot at a loss. If they drop it more, theyâll be making even more of a loss. Which is the standard business model for new products these days, but the losses on AI products dwarf things like Netflix and Uber during their âoperate at a loss to drive everybody else out of businessâ phase.
Of course, that would all be fine if CoPilot was some killer product that people quickly found themselves unable to work without. Instead, the feedback shows that workers find that itâs not useful or reliable enough to be worth using, and Microsoftâs own latest advert for CoPilot in Excel contains data which shows that at best operation it doesnât work 46% of the time, and that figure can be as high as 80%.
Iâm not sure these problems are really surmountable - youâve got an incredibly expensive-to-run product which doesnât do much thatâs useful and is bad at the things that it actually could be useful for. Itâs not just Microsoft, itâs the entire tech industry thatâs facing this problem.
I get what youâre saying, but my point wasnât really about viability of their price structure vs cost.
It was the fact that they are offering a personal M365 license AND CoPilot license for $20. If they can do that, theyâve already done the math and are OK with the price.
So if they are OK with the price, why not offer that same discounted bundle to business, adjusted to whatever business license is included?
But no, they want to charge business $30 for CoPilot alone, with no M365 license.
So this strategy is clear, they are trying to compete and gain adoption in the personal space, competing against $20 chatgpt or similar subscriptions. With that in mind, its a great strategy. They gain market share, gain your personal data for their advertising, and further cements people in their ecosystem.
So, lengthy way to get to the point of, they are screwing over businesses without a similar (if not comparable) deal, and then forcing problems because people will just start using their own LLMs for business use which adds a huge shadow IT strain and risk. So business will react in turn and shut it all down, which then kills adoption.
So theyâre purposefully shooting themselves in the right foot so they can take a step with their left. It wonât work out in the end.
Theyâre probably okay with the price because the number of private users will dwarf the commercial users.
As for businesses shutting it down - any business which is using it has already bought the hype. Theyâre not using it because itâs actually effective. Theyâre much more likely to crack down on workers than they are to ban AI all together.
I do agree that it wonât work out in the end, not because this particular strategy is stupid, but because the products donât work and no strategy could work.
Businesses are happy to have their employees be more productive without having to pay for expensive new licenses⊠But eventually theyâre going to find out that letting all your employees share swaths of private data with random websites is not a great idea.
Why would a company want to do that for their own internal use?
Models you can download are mostly just data. They donât do anything on their own. You can even write your own interpreter for them, if you feel like it.
This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.
edit: So I guess the point is that IT admins are frustrated that Copilot for users in an org is $30 per month vs $10 per month for a home user. Again, I donât buy it. If I think of all the ways MS is screwing me, this is not high on the list. Microsoftâs predatory bundling practices have driven the cost of their services to a ridiculous point, well before this Copilot noise.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 04 Oct 12:55
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Do you mean that everyone who is using AI is using ChatGPT? Or that literally everyone is using ChatGPT?
Anecdotally, Iâm the only one in my workspace who doesnât use chatgpt. My coworkers all use it multiple times a day, from simple queries, to rewriting documents and emails.
Idk. Since ms is a walled garden. If you want your ai to read your documents and mail and whatever else you have at work copilot is easily the only way to do that effectively.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
on 04 Oct 15:18
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Except it doesnât do much of anything effectively
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
on 04 Oct 16:24
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Hey my work is forcing me to do an 8 hour class on copilot. This feels super unnecessary. Like, I know how to type a prompt. What else could I learn in 8 hours?
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I doubt IT admins are surprised. Frustrated, yes.
I feel like this will not last long. Itâs one thing to rape end users, but with the growing corporate backlash against AI, I think angry money will win the day, and Microsoft will back down.
Hereâs to hoping! đ»
Nah, as long as Microsoft dangles their bullshit stats about improved productivity in front of managers and as long as the competition is using AI then the bosses will keep trying to shoehorn it in to their companies that donât need it.
Someone should tell them that freemium doesnât work well when thereâs a linear increase in cost for every additional query, and when the business value for your exceptionally expensive product is nebulous at best.
Thatâs why theyâre pushing so hard now. They canât keep it free forever. They need you to become reliant upon it to perform even the simplest of tasks now so when they monetize usage it has already become a must have. That way they can count on your subscription no matter what.
The Nestle effect
Crack trap house strategy
Thatâs just Microsoftâs standard practice. Thatâs why we all know itâs coming.
Welcome to the AI bubble. Itâs going to be a wild ride possibly taking other sectors if not a country or two with it when it falls from grace.
I donât think these lemmings cheering for the bubble pop understand how bad this will be. Gotta happen sometime, better sooner than later, but fuck me itâs going to be disastrous. Reminds of of October, 1929.
âUse this until youâre dependant on it, then weâll jack the price up 400%! Oh, and we want to sell all of your work data, and use it to train our shitty LLMâs.â
Feels like a sign they arenât selling anywhere near enough corporate licenses.
Copilot is disabled by default in my company. And thereâs literally a new policy/guideline about the use of AI/LLM in the workplace being released every month because of how rapid changes are happening. Not that employees arenât allowed to use them at all, but are restricted in what they are allowed to use.
You should turn in your company to the AI cartel. They should have known that restricting use was going to be a problem for the Tech Lords.
All companies belong to the Tech Lords now. Once they have eviscerated your management AI will once again flow freely into your workplace.
There is no future only AI.
Their logic is: Workplaces arenât buying copilot licenses So make a good price on personal licenses
If price is the barrier, maybe bring down that $30 license fee for business (which is on top of the M365 license) to see if adoption grows.
This is not going to win any friends in the business world and will most likely result in blanket bans of AI tools in the workplace to counteract this.
This is already happening.
I work for very large IT company and they are upgrading to Windows 11 because they have to but AI tools like co-pilot are being blocked by default in the image we push to all users.
This is resulted in a very funny knowledge base article which basically tells the support staff to tell the users to go do one if they complain about it.
Any job openings for a sysadmin?
Is that an internal KB article or something you send to the customers? If itâs public Iâd like to read it for a chuckle.
Customers in this case being other businesses, so no itâs not public.
Basically it just boils down to telling them that corporate policy is not to make use of AI because of data collection concerns and to emphatically remind them that attempting to circumvent these policies is against corporate procedures.
Technically itâs no different than just taking internal documents and dumping them online.
Banning work controlled ai is incredibly short sighted
You will just end up with a whole bunch of shadow ai that you canât control what users upload or how they use it.
Well co-pilot sends all itâs data to Microsoft as is.
The issue there is that even at that pricepoint, Microsoft is still operating CoPilot at a loss. If they drop it more, theyâll be making even more of a loss. Which is the standard business model for new products these days, but the losses on AI products dwarf things like Netflix and Uber during their âoperate at a loss to drive everybody else out of businessâ phase.
Of course, that would all be fine if CoPilot was some killer product that people quickly found themselves unable to work without. Instead, the feedback shows that workers find that itâs not useful or reliable enough to be worth using, and Microsoftâs own latest advert for CoPilot in Excel contains data which shows that at best operation it doesnât work 46% of the time, and that figure can be as high as 80%.
Iâm not sure these problems are really surmountable - youâve got an incredibly expensive-to-run product which doesnât do much thatâs useful and is bad at the things that it actually could be useful for. Itâs not just Microsoft, itâs the entire tech industry thatâs facing this problem.
I get what youâre saying, but my point wasnât really about viability of their price structure vs cost.
It was the fact that they are offering a personal M365 license AND CoPilot license for $20. If they can do that, theyâve already done the math and are OK with the price.
So if they are OK with the price, why not offer that same discounted bundle to business, adjusted to whatever business license is included?
But no, they want to charge business $30 for CoPilot alone, with no M365 license.
So this strategy is clear, they are trying to compete and gain adoption in the personal space, competing against $20 chatgpt or similar subscriptions. With that in mind, its a great strategy. They gain market share, gain your personal data for their advertising, and further cements people in their ecosystem.
So, lengthy way to get to the point of, they are screwing over businesses without a similar (if not comparable) deal, and then forcing problems because people will just start using their own LLMs for business use which adds a huge shadow IT strain and risk. So business will react in turn and shut it all down, which then kills adoption.
So theyâre purposefully shooting themselves in the right foot so they can take a step with their left. It wonât work out in the end.
Theyâre probably okay with the price because the number of private users will dwarf the commercial users.
As for businesses shutting it down - any business which is using it has already bought the hype. Theyâre not using it because itâs actually effective. Theyâre much more likely to crack down on workers than they are to ban AI all together.
I do agree that it wonât work out in the end, not because this particular strategy is stupid, but because the products donât work and no strategy could work.
All that aside, I just wanted to say I really like your name.
Thank you
Copilot is being pushed so hard by management on the users in my pharma companyâŠ
$30/mo is still too much for what it can do
Businesses are happy to have their employees be more productive without having to pay for expensive new licenses⊠But eventually theyâre going to find out that letting all your employees share swaths of private data with random websites is not a great idea.
My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.
It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I donât trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.
I always suspect that even the âlocalâ models somehow connect to some larger database out in the internet.
Why would a company want to do that for their own internal use? Models you can download are mostly just data. They donât do anything on their own. You can even write your own interpreter for them, if you feel like it.
This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.
edit: So I guess the point is that IT admins are frustrated that Copilot for users in an org is $30 per month vs $10 per month for a home user. Again, I donât buy it. If I think of all the ways MS is screwing me, this is not high on the list. Microsoftâs predatory bundling practices have driven the cost of their services to a ridiculous point, well before this Copilot noise.
Do you mean that everyone who is using AI is using ChatGPT? Or that literally everyone is using ChatGPT?
Anecdotally, Iâm the only one in my workspace who doesnât use chatgpt. My coworkers all use it multiple times a day, from simple queries, to rewriting documents and emails.
Yes, this has led to some problemsâŠ
Idk. Since ms is a walled garden. If you want your ai to read your documents and mail and whatever else you have at work copilot is easily the only way to do that effectively.
Except it doesnât do much of anything effectively
But itâs AI
Please use it
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do you mean ChatGPT the website? Because you can use chatgpt models through copilot, but there are other models too.
And I donât have the ability to turn it off because Iâm not an admin, so I am stuck with this shit on the new work PC.
Hey my work is forcing me to do an 8 hour class on copilot. This feels super unnecessary. Like, I know how to type a prompt. What else could I learn in 8 hours?