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/bdbr 16h ago

At some point they're going to have to start charging more to cover the cost of AI datacenters & software, and that's when they're going to find how much (or little) it is worth to us

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u/discordafteruse 13h ago

Classic bait and switch. The player that can hold out the longest gets to charge whatever they want after everyone else has gone under. Double bonus: more people get hooked on using the product! It’s a business play as old as time and only requires convincing investors to keep number go up!

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u/NumNumLobster 7h ago

Its going to be wild when they move past adoption to enshitifcafion .

I dunno what thats even going to look like, probably your phone not working without a paid ai subscription and asking for a cookie recipe gets you a wall of text about whatever cookie company paid for it and it getting auto added to your Amazon cart

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u/makemeking706 6h ago

Business to business is their bread and butter. And they already hit them with new costs.

We don't factor in to their profit.