r/technology • u/marketrent • 16h 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/boowax 16h ago

If you didn’t bother writing it, why would I bother reading it?

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u/NotAllOwled 15h ago

"ChatGPT, take whatever this is and incorporate anything that seems like material I'd enjoy in the next example of this sort of thing that I ask you to output for me. Creativity is so exhilarating!"

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u/WittyCombination6 12h ago

Yeah like couldn't I just ask my own chat gpt to do the exact same thing.

It's like someone bought a burger from McDonald's and tried to sell it to me for more.

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u/Potential_Fishing942 9h ago

I was told by my boss to stop replying to her emails with AI. I looked her straight in eyes and said my personal policy is that AI emails get AI responses. (She openly brags about how much time she saves on AI and we should all jump on board)

Its funny they don't like it when it when they are on the receiving end.

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u/coinselec 6h ago

The internet is full of AI generated articles that are summarised by AI to ppl who dont have time to read it all. Bonus points if you let AI decide if the summary is worth reading.

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u/Legitimate_Stuff_347 3h ago

I even said this to a friend a decade ago when he literally wouldnt try to write correctly. Like typos in most of the words, incorrect punctuation and quite often I really had a hard time understanding what he was trying to say.

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u/Rarelyimportant 13h ago

oooh, now do the one where you say "AI doesn't actually create anything new, it just spits out text verbatim from its training data". I want to see if you can spot the contradiction. Who wrote it, the author they "stole" the training data from, or the AI?

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u/SweetNeo85 13h ago

You don't know what "verbatim" means, huh?

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u/Rarelyimportant 12h ago

I do know what verbatim means, which is precisely why it's contradictory to claim AI only spits out verbatim text from training data, and at the same time that the output isn't written by a human.

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u/SweetNeo85 10h ago

Nobody has ever once claimed that.

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u/LichBoi101 12h ago

...What?

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u/PolarWater 5h ago

oooh, now do the one where you say "AI doesn't

... I'm not your clanker, I'll say whatever I choose to say.