Comment by anigbrowl

I don't agree. These cheap classifier systems are quite limited but they're very fast, can execute multiple queries in parallel, and are dirt cheap (or free if you run locally; there are even tiny models designed to work on embedded hardware platforms like ESP32).

The big win for them in my view is that they can do a lot of low-stakes ('good enough') classification at scale without spending a lot of time to handroll classifiers.