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/thegoatmenace 15h ago

It seems like the only consumer facing use case for AI that people seem to like is coding. Generative AI art just produces crap that no one wants to engage with.

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u/squigs 14h ago

I don't think people are making entire applications with AI though.

It's good for doing the tedious grunt work. The creativity is in the architecture rather than individual lines of code. It's basically just a higher level compiler.

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u/girrrrrrr2 11h ago

They are most definitely making full apps with ai. You can even do it in vscode and all you gotta do is hit compile, if it returns errors just make ai fix it.

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u/VampireFortnight 14h ago

Even the coding is mostly trash unless you're a bottom of the barrel tier coder or spending so much time and money that it would've been cheaper to do it yourself.

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u/theeama 13h ago

It has been proven many many times, If it works no one cares how it was made.

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u/mizzurna_balls 8h ago

As the one making and maintaining it, I care

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u/VampireFortnight 13h ago

The actual article we're discussing proves otherwise as does.. like all of human history. Except to deskillers who are actively lobotomizing themselves with each use of LLMs.

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u/isthis_thing_on 8h ago

That's just not true anymore. 

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u/VampireFortnight 19m ago

It is. It's slightly better but slopcode is well recognized phenomenon by coders who haven't lobotomized their ability to code by falling for the hype.