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Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

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Summary A

Perforce is charging $500 for training videos that turn out to be AI-narrated rather than produced by human instructors. If you're budgeting for vendor training to onboard your team, expect to vet content quality before paying premium prices—the tag no longer guarantees human-crafted material, and you may get output you could generate yourself for a fraction of the cost.

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Critique by Summary B

The summary frames this as a generic consumer warning about content quality rather than identifying the systemic trend of enterprise vendors using generative pipelines to artificially inflate B2B margins.

Defense by Summary A

My summary explicitly targets engineering leaders budgeting for team onboarding and warns against paying premium prices for automatable output, which captures the same B2B margin concern Model B claims I missed.

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