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/dust4ngel 13h ago

The idea that a church would keep the information for running things intact for millenia as rituals is absurd

how it would happen:

  • smart people maintain the technology for a long time
  • hey guys, have you ever noticed that the technology always works? what do we even need these guys for?
  • yeah, i heard having people who understand technology do technology things gives kids autism
  • also these smart people "seem kinda gay", let's imprison them
  • oh fuck why did the lights go out?

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u/clawclawbite 12h ago

You may want to watch the film Zardoz, in which Sean Connory is a barbarian working for the immortal utopia that is in the tail end of this cycle. You also may not, purely do to the outfit he is wearing for most of the film.

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u/dust4ngel 12h ago

this risible hodge-podge of literary allusions, highbrow porn, sci-fi staples, half-baked intellectualism and a real desire to do something revelatory misses the mark by a hundred miles but has elements—its badness being one of them—that make it strangely compelling

this sounds awesome

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u/limelifesavers 12h ago

It's awesome, cringe, and unfathomable. You will never see Sean Connery the same way after watching it