100% horse n buggy no electric!
Those two are walking a tight line and I'm willing to bet that it is very controlled and more likely not outside of a business setting.
As to this:
Have to change or be out of business!
That all depends. I have to wonder if this is going to be auto conversion (or auto digitizing some might call it) 2.0. Both "AI" (or again, what passes for it) and auto conversion have to be in very specific situations to actually have something work to make it worth having to have used the process to begin with. I know shops that do nothing but auto conversion at very cheap rates and that has ruined the perception (much like "AI" is doing) of the craft. There are things that people absolutely need to adapt to, the problem with "AI" (and auto conversion before it) as far as my needs are, it takes far more to deal with the sub par results and fix what it needs to be fixing compared to just doing it myself. It actually costs more in time compared to actually doing it myself. Also, I found it ironic that the people that are actually closest to these "AI" systems have to be forced as apart of their job to use it, because they don't really want to use it (otherwise there would be no need to make it apart of their job review, I think some even have quotas on usage, why if it's the best thing out there, particularly those that are closest to this systems, I would imagine that they would be the ones most likely to make these systems just sing right along with very minimal hiccups?). This isn't even going in to the legal aspect of it all.
