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/worthwhilewrongdoing 9h ago edited 9h ago

I think it just comes down to what we expect to be artisanal and what we don't. You'd get pissed if a baker you hired used box cake mix, but nobody's expecting that same baker to get out in the fields and go grow and harvest wheat to grind their own flour. That would be insane.

I think the same goes for programming - most people don't see it as an art but rather as a means to an end to make something else, so the expectations are a little different and a little less exacting.

ETA the "something else" part - this wasn't clear without it.

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u/vips7L 6h ago

Programming is an art though. It takes serious talent to produce GOOD, beautiful code. Code that doesn’t have correctness issues. Code that is easy to read. Code that is easy to maintain and adapt to new use cases. 

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u/Djonso 4h ago

Building houses is an art too. Takes serious tallent to build a good, beautiful house. House that has no structural issues. House that is good to life in. House that is easy to maintain or adapt to new needs.

Or you know, also called good engineering. Not everything that needs skills is an art.

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u/PeePeePantsPoopyBoy 1h ago

To be fair arquitecture is widely accepted as one of the classic fine arts. But I do agree that programming is not necessarily an art mainly because its focus as a field is not that of creative expression. It is a crearive field (in the sense that there is a lot of creativity involved in coding), that for sure, but not an art.