I think some of it is the return is hidden. Things that took people an hour now taking half that. Presentations that were bland are now improving. The fact I can do some quick analysis of some data then analyze it in a number of ways for insights makes me more efficient.

Instead of 1x you are getting 1.1x out of employees that leverage AI in some fashion. yeah it's not much but over time and enough staff that adds up and as people become more familiar with how to prompt and use ai it will become that much more of a productive and valuable tool.

Slop does not improve anything. Many people have a visceral negative reaction to it. Every blog post I see with some crappy AI image attached, the content is drastically devalued for me. Some workflows are actually slower now. People become deskilled. Some start to fall into delusion.

This technology is not an industry win.