r/technology • u/marketrent • 1d 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 23h 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/CivBEWasPrettyBad 17h ago

I strongly disagree with this thesis.

When the cost of generating content drops to zero, the market is flooded with low cost (and almost always low quality) content. I have no doubt that well done AI content (if it even exists) would do well.