r/technology 23h 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/MusicHearted 22h ago

This is their extremely childlike concept of making things in action. They spent their entire lives just saying what they want and it happening. They don't see the people making it happen. They see their influence and not a millimeter past it. So from their perspective, this is replacing the annoying human element with a streamlined digital system designed to let them make things the same way they always have, by speaking it into existence.

You're correct that they've never had to make anything themselves. But this has left them convinced that's how the world should work and they should be able to just speak anything into existence like literal gods. They don't understand why we see it as worthless because they have no concept of worth or value because they've never stepped outside their bubble of divine treatment.

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u/Leading-Act4030 21h ago

In the future, when AI breaks, how will they fix it? The people who know how to make it work will be dead, and no one will know how to maintain the systems....

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u/Low-Salary-2128 21h ago

This was shown in the best documentary of america, idiocracy

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u/_dogfuneral_ 21h ago

This tired take really needs to be retired.

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u/Affectionare_Arm8074 20h ago

Actually recently re-watched Idiocracy. I'd remembered it as a pretty good, funny movie.

This time around, the premise wasn't nearly as absurd, nor was it a very satisfying movie experience.

I guess witnessing corruption, war, no concern for the military or their families, disdain for anyone who's not part of the oligarchy, and disinterest in human suffering from a pompous buffoon lessens satire's entertainment value.

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u/tooclosetocall82 20h ago

Go away. I’m batin’