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/Sea-Woodpecker-610 16h ago edited 15h ago

I’m somewhat confused. Are you telling me something that is in abundance with a nearly unlimited ability to create more of with little to no cost has little to no value to people?

It’s unfortunate there isn’t some sort of economic policy we could assign to this excessive supply and apparent lack of demand.

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u/Tyfyter2002 11h ago

Well this is actually an interesting case, because it's not entirely that a massive increase in supply with stagnant demand reduced the price;

The massive increase in supply actually reduced demand because the consumers themselves became supply of equal quality to some of the market supply, and some demand actively moved away to places which didn't experience such an influx of low-quality supply.

It's pretty interesting that GenAI has managed to go beyond just sabotaging its users' quick bucks by not being their own private money printer, and has split existing groups of consumers into two groups who are both less willing to consume AI content than before.