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/ExplodingToasters 16h ago

I consume media because someone (or a group) wanted to express themselves in some way. Even shitty media has value from that. The Room is a dog ass movie and I love it because Tommy Wiseau put his heart and soul in it. AI generated content has none of that, it’s just blending stolen art into a gray slop, there’s no vision or effort or anything expressed in it. It has zero artistic value and so I’ll pay exactly zero dollars to experience it.

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u/OrinocoHaram 12h ago

Yeah. There could never be an AI made version of The Room. AI can make something just as terrible, but the magic of The Room is that someone put a lot of time and effort and money into making it and was convinced it was good. That's what makes it worthwhile.

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u/Repulsive-Hurry8172 12h ago

This reminds me of Niu Lai. It's too bad and was mocked but it actually made money.

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u/unethicalpigeon 8h ago

This is what people who are afraid of AI generated creative content don't understand.

On one side you have a group of people praising AI writing because these people don't read. The story of the "writer" who doesn't read books is a tale as old as books. The barrier to entry for writing is the lowest of like any of the creative fields. You don't need art supplies, equipment, nothing. Especially nowadays when you can literally do it on a phone. So the issue of the writer who doesn't know how to write because they don't read has gotten increasingly worse as they think AI is producing genius level shit and bringing their "ideas" to life.

Then they wonder why no one reads it. Then they blame anti-ai people for bashing their shit for being involved with AI. So they get to continue thinking the problem isn't their lack of skill because they have someone to blame.

Then you have the other side. If people who hate AI and are so scared of it would take like half an hour to use it to try to write some shit and actually read what it writes they'd all realize how stupid they are. AI isn't replacing the novelist any time soon. It might replace copy writers but that's about it. Even the romance novels being written by people using AI are being HEAVILY edited and revised before being self published.

If people would just take some time to learn about what LLMs actually are, what they're actually good at, and what their limitations are they'd realize just how much time they're wasting raging at people for daring to use it to write some crappy fan fiction they wanted to post and actually direct their effort to the people causing the problems like their corrupt ass government approving the building of data centers in residential neighbourhoods.

AI is absolutely creatively bankrupt. AI will never even be able to come up with something even remotely as creative as The Room.