The tendency for the incremental cost of producing one additional unit of creative or informational output to fall toward negligible levels when AI assistance is used. Expressed as cost per additional produced unit, observed at the level of a task or workflow.
RATIO. Numerator: incremental resource cost (time, money, or compute) attributable to producing one further output unit with AI assistance. Denominator: one additional accepted output unit. The construct is this marginal cost-per-unit, compared against the non-AI baseline marginal cost.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Marginal cost-per-unit = incremental cost / additional accepted unit, computed from task time-and-cost logs with and without AI assistance; could be reported as the AI-vs-baseline ratio of marginal costs with dispersion across tasks.
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