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Matt Wood, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at ABBY, offers his perspective, arguing that AI has made it cheap to clone the interfaces and outputs of paid software such as Adobe, yet paid software has not come to an end—value is shifting toward trust, integration, and judgment. He points out that enterprise AI projects often demo impressively but struggle to deliver in practice, the root cause being that models can only access fragmented context scattered across contracts, invoices, and scanned PDFs, producing confident guesses rather than insight. He also cites a 2024 Science Advances study, noting that AI assistance improved individuals' writing quality and creativity while making the overall body of stories more homogeneous.
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Software Cloning: Is Paid Software Really Coming to an End?
Matt Wood, Senior Director of Cybersecurity Architecture at ABBY, believes that AI has made it cheap to clone the interfaces and outputs of paid software such as Adobe, but paid software has not come to an end—value is shifting toward trust, integration, and judgment. He points out that enterprise AI projects look impressive in demos yet are hard to implement, because models can only access fragmented local context scattered across contracts, invoices, and scanned PDFs, producing confident guesses rather than insight. A 2024 study in Science Advances showed that AI assistance improved individuals' writing quality and creativity, yet made overall stories more homogeneous.