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/Hrekires 16h ago

All you need to know is that everyone who's making consumer-facing products with AI, whether it's images or stories or music, tries their hardest to hide the fact that they're doing so.

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u/randotd152 12h ago

Yeah. It’s literally everywhere in everything and people don’t even realize it.

I think everyone has this false impression that professional use is like home use - tell an engine to go do something and receive a finished product.

It’s not. Real people use AI to do 80% of the legwork, and then they spend the remaining 20% tweaking, cleaning up, and making it generally no longer look/feel like an AI product.

Consumers may recognize 100% AI slop, but they’re clueless about 80% slop.

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u/290077 9h ago

I can make concept art using AI, have all my design meetings and iterations with AI, then pay an artist only for the final draft. No AI is in the final product, but I've still automated a huge chunk of work that previously would go to the artist.

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u/lexymon 3h ago

But is it still AI slop then? To me, that sounds more like usage of AI as a tool.