Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence – Business & Finance.
Technological devices and applications, are instruments. Technology firms (producers, providers, sellers and programmers), sell facility and especially utility for service, i.e. the instrumentation of their products and programs to customers (users, buyers and consumers).
Utility and facility to customers, is standard in business production and in sales, marketing and advertising. This is the value of the benefit and profit for which users are paying (the price) for. Instrumentation therefore, is the subject of the commercial transactions in technological products and services. This is also the factor of the financial valuation of the legal sales transaction.
Instrumentation of the devices and applications (for the beneficial utility of the user), is the standard business model of technology firms. This is the standard model especially of information technology firms and of all other information firms like in the media and the press. This is also the standard transaction practice and principle in free market, commercial economics.
Instrumentation of the users for the utility, facility, benefit and profit of the producers via the programs, devices and applications, is a novel business model in technology, information technology, media, press, education, communication and in free market, commercial economics.
The business, commercial and financial sense of this new model (of the exploitation of the buyer by the seller, instead of the product and the service by the buyer), is one which the sponsors of it, will have to convince the commercial and the financial markets about its operational utility, legitimate function and financial success. This will require transparency on the programs, especially of the generative applications, which the producers will need to surrender.
Meanwhile, the qualitative value can be positive (if of profit and benefit to the user), neutral, or negative (if of damage and loss to the user). This qualification will determine the commercial, legal and financial direction of the transaction flow.
Put simply and leniently, cheat is not sound business, commercial or financial policy, despite conventional (to some) wisdom.
