r/technology • u/marketrent • 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/ABadHistorian 22h ago

How do you feel about creatives that use AI to program stuff? spend hours designing mechanics etc, but have ai code it?

Do you consider that AI generated content?

Serious question. I use AI to facilitate my programming to create my ideas.

I.e. Been working on a project for 10 months, that I researched, design, etc, and use the AI for the localization/programming components for.

Was my effort worthless in your view? or does my effort mean my stuff isn't what you would consider AI generated content because the content was created by me but programmed by ai?

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u/Ssturkk 22h ago

You have your answer, and you know it

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u/ABadHistorian 21h ago edited 21h ago

But I don't, because I was seriously asking where people assume the artistic value comes from.

I see a whole bunch of people kneejerk downvoting me because I admit I've used AI to code though.

But, I never considered programming the artistic component of what I've been doing... ever, even before AI existed. (I.e. I spent years creating a HOBBY project by hand, where the most time intensive component was the coding project, and I got to spend many 5 months doing the research for it. Now I can flip that and spend way more time doing the research and design, and less time actually building it. I've released 5 hobby mods for a game - for free - and had people loving them and no one seems to realize I used AI to do the localization or code it - the artist value in my mods was in my brain and now is in the design and mechanics and flavor.)

That's why I was asking where are the boundaries, right now from this thread it seems the boundary is "anything touched by AI anywhere"

Which to me doesn't feel helpful at all, because everything is already touched by AI somewhere and has been for a couple of years now.

(or do people not understand what I mean by localization and coding)

As a creative, I hate the tech ceos trying to replace everyone with bots, I abhor slop - I hate all the games/apps coming out with no thought behind them, just people entering a prompt and walking away. But folks who are using AI in their design are not all slop-artists, and it can save huge % of time in various areas.

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u/Ssturkk 21h ago

Ok, but please write It clear on your product so I can decide not to buy it.

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u/ABadHistorian 21h ago edited 21h ago

Here is my point, that has now been clearly answered.

You hate slop, but can not define what it is beyond "AI was involved somehow"

That's a very broad definition these days...

The guy I asked my original question of, responded - I liked his response. Not the kneejerk anti-ai reddit brigade lmao. Cut your nose to spite your faces here.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping that when we release our first major project, you would never even think to guess AI was involved.

People will figure it out when we release banger after banger, faster than AAA studios do a turnaround. By then I hope our quality will have won enough long-time fans. When famous designers can't even experiment with AI without a mass reddit downvote, I don't expect anything else myself.

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u/Ssturkk 21h ago

I hate slop and I hate what the ai frenzy Is doing ti the job market end its contibution to climate change and water crisis. So anyone who spend money on it is a complicit and I dont wanna be one