Apologies if I am late on these considerations but the implementation of the AI Act brings up an interesting aspect.

As ethically required, we will need to declare which parts of professional jobs are performed not by us humans, but by AI assistants/agents. But there are also free, or almost free, AI assistants/agents that can be directly used by the customers.

I am not a market expert, but I can imagine that this will lead to (and it reminds me of years ago when Google Search arrived): 1) professional jobs performed without or with little AI assistants/agents’ contribution, + 2) direct customers use of AI assistants/agents to perform the job; and very little in between.

A non-IT example can be the legal profession: asking an AI chatbot for legal advice is for free (or it can appear to be so), but it is not the same as paying a lawyer for legal support.