Microsoft just introduced another virtual currency to tinker with.

The comparison with adult webcam services are actually quite fair: you buy the currency, spend it and watch the actor doing it's job... but now in the tech ecosystem.

Companies like to capture revenue more than they want to develop new features. AI is not ubiquitous, but Copilot has been positioned to capture enough of the market now, to call it good enough. The idea that the models (and for some reason usage rates) will somehow get cheaper by some magnitude in the next 6 mo. is wishful thinking. Copilot is demonstrating that by going in reverse.