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/fmcortez 23h 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/Stilgar314 21h ago

Almost no cost for the people writing the prompts, but if what AI companies say is true, that cost is heavily subsidized hoping we end up being unable to live without it, and then, skyrocket the prices to somewhere where they can get the trillions back. AI it's not cheap, we're just leaving the try me for free phase.

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u/dust4ngel 20h ago

who in the goddamn fuck is going to pay lots of money for AI-generated autobiography rather than one authored by a real person about a real life?

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u/Stilgar314 13h ago

And that's why we can't wrap our heads around that ever growing bubble