Once they have to pay the actual costs of AI after all the VC money dries up, it will be clear that humans are much cheaper than AI. A $20 AI tool is just an introductory price, and that's mostly because companies don't want to pass on the real cost because they want people hooked.
I didn't expect image gen models to be so widely used. Would be nice to have some concrete numbers instead of these anecdotes the article provides. Bullish case for ai though