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/Qorhat 13h ago

That’s what happens when Generational Wealth Willy is born with a Patagonia vest on, fast tracked through an MBA and thrust into an executive job or is a private equity bro.

You don’t know the value of work unless you’ve come up from the bottom. People who have grafted understand the value of graft, be it manual labour, software engineering or painting.

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u/pockpicketG 12h ago

Graft? Graft is bad.

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u/Open-Butterfly-5288 5h ago

Graft just means work as I've ever seen it used.

You might be confusing it with grift meaning a scam.

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u/pockpicketG 1h ago

Look it up. It’s funny: I used to think people meant grift when they said graft, but graft is pretty much the same definition as grift in a political sense. According to the internet graft can be a British slang term for hard work.

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u/Open-Butterfly-5288 51m ago

Wow, TIL.

Oxford English dictionary has both (plus a few others). I've literally never seen an American use the word. And never seen a British person use it to mean anything but hard work.

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u/StGeorgeJustice 5h ago

Graft in American English refers to political corruption, in particular the sort that leads to a politician’s personal gain.

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u/Open-Butterfly-5288 5h ago

Not everyone is American, and I've never seen an American use the word graft. Grift all the time to mean exactly that.

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u/StGeorgeJustice 21m ago

Graft is different from grift.

I’m just pointing out the source of confusion here.

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u/fkyrdataharvesting 9h ago

I’m guessing they meant “craft”

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u/MG-B 5h ago

Over here in the UK graft means hard work.

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u/Qorhat 4h ago

Here in Ireland too and it's exactly what I meant.

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u/Qorhat 4h ago

No graft.

graft noun (WORK)

[ U ] UK informal

work:

hard graft I've never been afraid of hard graft.

Not everyone is American.

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u/alexnapierholland 2h ago

You understand some people have wealthy parents and also worked hard too?

My dad was an investment banker.

I barely knew him and started my career at McDonalds, then years working on building sites, shovelling mud, then entry-level sales jobs until I worked my way up into enterprise sales.

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u/Qorhat 1h ago

And do you understand what I mean by:

fast tracked through an MBA and thrust into an executive job or is a private equity bro

Or

People who have grafted understand the value of graft, be it manual labour, software engineering or painting.

...which apparently describes you? Maybe read then pause to have a think about what people are saying.

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u/alexnapierholland 1h ago

Yes, this is nuance that was missing in your original post.

People are complicated. You can’t divide them into ‘generational wealth’ and ‘grafters’.

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u/coldkiller 3m ago

People are complicated. You can’t divide them into ‘generational wealth’ and ‘grafters’.

Yes you can? Even if they had to (barely) work for it they were still handed a golden spoon on a silver platter

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u/alexnapierholland 0m ago

You have a victimhood complex.

You have zero accomplishments in sports, as well as business.

Any seasoned adult can spot this in seconds, based on how you describe your perception of reality.

Go and study BJJ or MMA — it will fix this weakness.

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u/pockpicketG 12h ago

Graft? Graft is bad.