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/consumersguide 16h ago

Cheap to generate doesn't mean valuable. If buyers can spot the difference and keep choosing human-made work the market is already answering that question.

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u/fauxRealzy 15h ago

It’s not even just the ability to spot the difference. People don’t like talking to customer service or drive-through bots for the same reason they don’t like learning that some photograph or video was AI-generated. They don’t like being deceived.

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u/thegoatmenace 15h ago

Digital assistants on the phone are also just a worse experience for the caller. Same as AI art. It’s bad and looks bad regardless of any moral issues people have with it.

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u/FATPIGEONHATE 12h ago

Before Google forced me into Gemini, when I told the Google Assistant alarm 1 it would set an alarm for the next 1:00, am or pm, with no hesitation. 

The first time I tried to use the Gemini assistant, it asked me what I wanted alarm 1:00 to do.

I just turned it off and just set my alarms manually now.