> Of course, it’s unclear how exactly Microsoft and Google are measuring what’s AI-generated versus not, so these figures are best taken with a grain of salt. This does seem to me to be the key question, is anyone transparent about this? If not, why not?
The perception of having fallen behind in AI adversely impacts your stock price, the amount of capital you can marshal to actually compete in AI. What I think is actually happening industry-wide is that any sort of "intelligence" in software is slowly being rebranded as AI.