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If I were running an AI, and I saw 25 people each pointing their note taking bots at the same webinar, I'd have it do the work once, and send it to each of them.
There is no reason to think that each of these 25 note taking bots is working separately and simultaneously on the exact same task.
I honestly don't know how this works. If it's a built in feature of the platform, sure. If it's a bot that's independent and from the view of the platform just another user that saves the notes locally, it might not even be easy to exchange the notes afterwards if they recognize each other and are the same (there might be different bots for the same task, as I said, I don't know)
They can see eachother in the room, so they should be able to figure out that they are all doing the same work. They might not do it yet, but they will certainly coordinate their efforts in the not-to-distant future. It doesn't make sense for the AI service to expend resources on actual duplicated efforts, rather than just giving the appearance of duplication.
As I said, I don't know if it's one AI service or several and there might be only one now but in the not so distant future, there might be a market or individualizable versions.
And coordination, exchanging addresses and sending and receiving encrypted messages might be too big of an overhead and delay for the user experience.
You shouldn't overestimate efficiency. Often the easiest solution is good enough. It would cost real and good paid people to solve this and the other version is less prone to problems.
You shouldn't underestimate profit motive. They aren't going to do it for the sake of efficiency, but they will certainly do it for the sake of money. It is ludicrous to think this degree of cost optimization hasn't already been implemented.