As a small business owner in a non tech business (60 employees, $40M revenue), AI is definitely worth $20/month but not as I anticipated.

I thought we'd use it to reduce our graphics department but instead we've begun outsourcing designers to Colombia.

What I actually use it for is to save time and legal costs. For example a client in bankruptcy owes us $20k. Not worth hiring an attorney to walk us through bankruptcy filings. But can easily ask ChatGPT to summarize legal notices and advise us what to do next as a creditor.

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flohofwoe a day ago | parent | next [-]

Which summarizes the one useful property of LLMs: a slightly better search engine which on top doesn't populate the first 5 result pages with advertisements - yet anyway ;)

	▲	jordanb 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No doubt in ten years chatgpt will mostly be telling you things it was paid to say.
	▲	Gud a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The saddest part is we used to have highly functional search engines two decades ago, where you would results from subject matter experts. Today it’s only the same SEO formatted crap without answer. I am working on a solution.

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pjc50 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Not worth hiring an attorney to walk us through bankruptcy filings

The AI doesn't carry professional liability insurance, so this is about as good as asking one of the legal subreddits. It's probably fine in this case since the worst case is not getting the money that you were at risk of not getting anyway.