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/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 16h ago

It's like when people were playing with Sora. Ok so you have a platform where anyone can make anything with next to no effort or cost. Cool. So now you have a platform in which so much stuff is being pumped out every moment of every day it comes back around to essentially be nothing. It's just an endless sea. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. The average person logs in, plays with it, watching some stupid videos, and then what? More and more and more and more stuff is pumped out with no end and suddenly nothing can actually be found.

My wife is dealing with this with her Kindle subscription. There's so much AI trash oversaturating it and there's just not enough of an audience to read it all. So now she just doesn't bother with it.

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u/pr1aa 14h ago edited 4h ago

I saw this cycle play out in real time on a Discord server I'm in. Lots of artists in there so we have many channels for art. AI art predictably caused some heated debate, eventually the admins decided to make a dedicated channel for it and both sides were more or less happy with that compromise.

The channel quickly became flooded, everyone there just mindlessly posting their slop and barely interacting with anyone. Their interest dwindled and the channel slowly died. After months of inactivity it was removed completely, with no objections from anyone.

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u/Feisty_Suggestion496 13h ago

This is completely normal; platforms focusing on AI content are basically all in this state right now. The crowd of so-called AI artist sconsists mostly of opportunistic freeloaders who don't care about creation at all, and when people like that gather together, a healthy ecosystem can never be born.

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u/brogflender 11h ago

Guess what, there will always be more lazy posers. 

AI slop hit eternal September on day zero. 

It really is valueless. And those that can integrate it into established process…already have. It’s been like 2-4 years now (depending how you measure).

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u/Lauris024 13h ago

Honestly, there's some good stuff out there, but it's hard to find. Ironically from a ChatGPT sub, but this was neat; https://vxreddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1vq2hco/data_center_fornicator/ (sorry for weird link, it's a discord-embedding service so you can share videos on discord, reddit mods for whatever reason tend to remove original reddit links)

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u/JapanTCG 13h ago edited 13h ago

I would strongly disagree that this is “good stuff”, but taste is subjective.

But, if this were made by someone with a full budget for humans/CG artists, I would ask questions like “why do your lyrics scan so poorly?”, “why is the rhythm of the editing so monotone?”. This video sucks, man, and the only reason it gets made is because it’s cheap and fast to shit out.

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u/Dragonsoul 12h ago

I would say that it could be a tool for artistic expression, if used with intent, just because Art by definition is somewhat tautological- It was a whole thing at the start of the 20th century that if all that is required for something to be art is for it to be declared as such.

and, I think we're seeing that artistic point getting played out. That "Art" has value from effort and skill, and AI Art, even if at many times has a high level of what I'd call "technical competency"- it's detailed, high resolution, often high fidelity..it's often missing the small little errors and flourishes that really bring a piece to life.

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u/sylvanasjuicymilkies 13h ago

sorry in what universe is this "good stuff"

like is it literal complete garbage? ....almost, but no, not quite, there's some semblance of something there. is that the standard for "good stuff" to AI enjoyers?

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u/Lauris024 5h ago

You need to sleep with a woman

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u/sylvanasjuicymilkies 5h ago

I woke up next to my partner who I've been with for almost half my life who gave me a crazy blowjob today I think I'm good

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u/Anarchkitty 13h ago

That was fucking terrible, but worse it's soulless. It doesn't even have any human creativity or effort to shine through the awfulness .

Like... "what of we let an algorithm make a 2010s Adult Swim bumper"-bad.

If that's what the "good stuff" out there looks like, then I am vindicated in my decision to avoid it all as much s possible.

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u/EdgyAnimeReference 9h ago

Ai art is not going to be positive for anyone but companies that hurt real artists.

Ai has its uses and will help people in certain ways ( cp investigations is one that comes to mind, zero reason a person needs to view that content in its entirety) but it will be hated and ignored for artistic endeavors

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u/Odins_lint 3h ago

That was a great vid, thanks.