Remember the last time you saw a commercial for a Tomato, or Rice or Beans by themselves? The reason these commercials don’t exist is that fruits, vegetables and whole grains are a commodity product that don’t need to be sold as part of a McDonald’s Happy Meal. A McDonald’s Happy Meal has something that is technically called food, but in practice is “food like”, and includes a toy to encourage addiction.
A good question for a CTO or CIO is to determine if they can afford to trust SaaS in the era of GenAI. Why? Many SaaS vendors often cheap or free services, but may later changes the TOS (Terms of Service) to sell the data to GenAI companies. Further if eventually deep learning approach turns out to be too expensive this data trove could be leaked as organizations can no longer afford to keep the data.