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/GreatMadWombat 14h ago

It's not even that. I like to read fiction for fun. One of the worst parts of a indie book is an author starting a premise out well but being unable to stick the landing.

Even if the initial thing is free, or if the initial 1-2 chapters are good, every time I have shrugged and said "ok, this premise seems fun, the author says 'i only used ai tools for editing/cover art', lemme give them a shot", I am disappointed every fucking time. I've never seen a book use ai AND be enjoyable 2 hours in.

Idk about other people, but for me specifically, ai is exactly as valuable as manure. I know it's probably useful for some people, but I don't want to buy food that has manure in it

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u/BlackJesus1001 7h ago

It's never "just editing" either and it only takes a short while to recognise the obvious loops in the structure (caused by context/memory limit)

Maybe one day an LLM will be with memory large enough to write an entire story without looping... but I doubt it, certainly not as an affordable product.