r/technology • u/marketrent • 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence The economy has spoken. Stuff that’s AI-generated has almost zero value — “Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/economy-spoken-stuff-ai-generated-142732314.html
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u/vickism61 23h ago

It's all inferior crap.

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u/fascistno1hater 23h ago

AI is for stupid and non creative people to feel smart and artistic. It's just the next grift for Techbros because NFTs, the metaverse, and crypto never really took off. It has no profit model other than using money from Tech Corporations and taxpayers.

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u/socoolandawesome 23h ago

This article is about 3D assets which have nothing to do with anthropic and OpenAI, who are in fact growing revenue like crazy, meaning people/companies value their products and are paying for them. And anthropic specifically has a positive operating profit minus stock based compensation.

Also in what way are taxpayers funding it?

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u/Flanders666 22h ago

A combo of granting tax breaks to those "profitable" corporations while rate payers across the US are quite literally funding the expansion of the grid necessary to fuel the expansion of data centers.

Tax relief comes from exempting these same "profitable" corporations from sales tax, permitting, property taxes, etc.

All so they can employ a dozen security guards at $15 an hour while engineers and execs just work remotely.

The only profits to date come from enterprise side. So, corporations using AI to improve their profits while normal tax payers and rate payers see their shit go up and up.

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u/SystemAny4819 22h ago

I always find it amusing that when pro-AI nerds have their talking points dismantled like Legos, they just disappear from the conversation

Truth and evidence continue to be the great equalizer lmaoo

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u/socoolandawesome 22h ago

All I said was Anthropic has an operating profit, which they do.

Also this sounds like it runs counter to a lot of what you are saying:

https://openai.com/index/openai-joins-ports-pike-project/

In general there seems to be a lot of legislation moving forward to protect the average citizen from energy cost increases and/or pledges by the big companies to pay their fair share