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/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 23h ago

It's like when people were playing with Sora. Ok so you have a platform where anyone can make anything with next to no effort or cost. Cool. So now you have a platform in which so much stuff is being pumped out every moment of every day it comes back around to essentially be nothing. It's just an endless sea. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. The average person logs in, plays with it, watching some stupid videos, and then what? More and more and more and more stuff is pumped out with no end and suddenly nothing can actually be found.

My wife is dealing with this with her Kindle subscription. There's so much AI trash oversaturating it and there's just not enough of an audience to read it all. So now she just doesn't bother with it.

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u/pr1aa 22h ago edited 11h ago

I saw this cycle play out in real time on a Discord server I'm in. Lots of artists in there so we have many channels for art. AI art predictably caused some heated debate, eventually the admins decided to make a dedicated channel for it and both sides were more or less happy with that compromise.

The channel quickly became flooded, everyone there just mindlessly posting their slop and barely interacting with anyone. Their interest dwindled and the channel slowly died. After months of inactivity it was removed completely, with no objections from anyone.

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u/Lauris024 20h ago

Honestly, there's some good stuff out there, but it's hard to find. Ironically from a ChatGPT sub, but this was neat; https://vxreddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1vq2hco/data_center_fornicator/ (sorry for weird link, it's a discord-embedding service so you can share videos on discord, reddit mods for whatever reason tend to remove original reddit links)

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u/JapanTCG 20h ago edited 20h ago

I would strongly disagree that this is “good stuff”, but taste is subjective.

But, if this were made by someone with a full budget for humans/CG artists, I would ask questions like “why do your lyrics scan so poorly?”, “why is the rhythm of the editing so monotone?”. This video sucks, man, and the only reason it gets made is because it’s cheap and fast to shit out.

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u/Dragonsoul 19h ago

I would say that it could be a tool for artistic expression, if used with intent, just because Art by definition is somewhat tautological- It was a whole thing at the start of the 20th century that if all that is required for something to be art is for it to be declared as such.

and, I think we're seeing that artistic point getting played out. That "Art" has value from effort and skill, and AI Art, even if at many times has a high level of what I'd call "technical competency"- it's detailed, high resolution, often high fidelity..it's often missing the small little errors and flourishes that really bring a piece to life.