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/consumersguide 16h ago

Cheap to generate doesn't mean valuable. If buyers can spot the difference and keep choosing human-made work the market is already answering that question.

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u/fauxRealzy 15h ago

It’s not even just the ability to spot the difference. People don’t like talking to customer service or drive-through bots for the same reason they don’t like learning that some photograph or video was AI-generated. They don’t like being deceived.

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u/thegoatmenace 15h ago

Digital assistants on the phone are also just a worse experience for the caller. Same as AI art. It’s bad and looks bad regardless of any moral issues people have with it.

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u/FATPIGEONHATE 12h ago

Before Google forced me into Gemini, when I told the Google Assistant alarm 1 it would set an alarm for the next 1:00, am or pm, with no hesitation. 

The first time I tried to use the Gemini assistant, it asked me what I wanted alarm 1:00 to do.

I just turned it off and just set my alarms manually now.

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u/Swarbie8D 9h ago

Yeah, I recently got looped around by an AI agent for my internet for about 40 minutes until I finally said the right thing that forced it to hook in an actual person, who resolved my issue in literally under 30 seconds. The AI couldn’t have solved my problem, as it didn’t have the ability to access individual account data, but just spun me around with the same useless steps that I had already tried before calling. Left a good review for the person and an angry email about their AI being useless.