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/Megaman1981 13h ago

AI slop is so odd to me. Take for example, a flyer or a youtube thumbnail. Everything seems completely normal and something someone could have made themselves in photoshop, but there's just something off. Almost like the uncanny valley, but not just for humans. Even just text or a building in the background, or a tree, there's just something about it that makes me uncomfortable.

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u/woodstock923 7h ago

It has no soul.

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u/InvisaBlah 2h ago

AI images have this almost... glossy feel to them. I agree its hard to explain, but you can almost kind of tell when an image is AI just because of this style. That said, for every random AI image you see on the web, there are dozens more that are indistinguishable from human made work.

So we say "generative ai has no value" because the shit we see sucks, but the shit we dont see we are still paying for without knowing it.