British workers spend nearly £1bn of their own money on GenAI for work, landmark Deloitte research finds
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British workers are spending close to £1 billion a year from their own pockets on generative AI (GenAI) tools they use for work, according to major new research from Deloitte UK.
  • LogicOverFeelings@piefed.caEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Reading this, all I can think about is all the confidential information that are probably getting leaked to the AI providers.

  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    These numbers seem somewhat mysterious to me, this would account for like 2-3% of all anthropic+openai’s revenue. I’m not sure exactly what that would mean but that can’t be good (for those companies) given how much those subscriptions are subsidised.

    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      17% surveyed said they paid for their own AI tools.

      Extrapolating that to the size of the UK workforce, that’s around 5-6 million people.

      That’s ~£166-200 per person per year, which is less than the premium ChatGPT or Claude plans, but more than the entry-level paid plans. That passes the sniff test, though I still find it kind of hard to believe.

      What I really want to know is how much person-time are these people indirectly wasting with sloppy work? Because I absolutely do not believe that many people can use AI effectively. I’ve seen too much to believe that. How much of this is just morging?

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        I wasn’t really disputing the numbers per se (although I do actually find it hard to believe 17% of workers pay for AI subscriptions…) but more wondering about, given that their combined revenues are somewhere around 50 billion USD, what the consequences of such a large fraction of that coming from heavily subsidised consumer use would be.