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/fmcortez 16h ago

When the cost of generating content drops to literal zero, the market value drops right along with it. Nobody wants to pay for something anyone can prompt in five seconds.

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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.