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>Of course, many people are building their business on huge AI scaffolding.

It's similar in the way many businesses transitioned their scalability etc. to 'the cloud' starting a couple of decades ago.

It's a combination of loss of control and abdication of responsibility. They can claim to the customer the reason the service went down is now Microsofts or Amazons etc. etc. fault. Ultimately the end-user was the one that ended up losing.

It was a choice. There was something they could do - and keep everything in house, although cost-competiveness becomes an issue at some point and you get priced out of your target market. Everyone loses except for the cloud computing (or now AI) providers.