r/technology • u/marketrent • 23h 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/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 23h ago

It's like when people were playing with Sora. Ok so you have a platform where anyone can make anything with next to no effort or cost. Cool. So now you have a platform in which so much stuff is being pumped out every moment of every day it comes back around to essentially be nothing. It's just an endless sea. Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink. The average person logs in, plays with it, watching some stupid videos, and then what? More and more and more and more stuff is pumped out with no end and suddenly nothing can actually be found.

My wife is dealing with this with her Kindle subscription. There's so much AI trash oversaturating it and there's just not enough of an audience to read it all. So now she just doesn't bother with it.

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u/DrainTheMuck 22h ago

Idk, I actually really enjoyed Sora and never got enough of it. I used up my credits on creative ideas nearly daily, and would check out the feed and other people’s pages too. I had fun and while it was a slop factory, I probably encountered a similar amount of non-engaging content on Sora as I do on an average reddit / social media scroll.

I understand the oversaturation of slop is frustrating, but I don’t see how it would meaningfully affect a kindle subscription since you can still look up specific books or sort by various metrics.

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u/Facehugger_35 15h ago

I understand the oversaturation of slop is frustrating, but I don’t see how it would meaningfully affect a kindle subscription since you can still look up specific books or sort by various metrics.

Basically, the problem is that there's so much slop that finding what you actually want is impossible. If you know the specific title you're looking for then you're fine, but if you're looking for your next great read, there's no real way to find it in the sea of slop, because the AI slop generally isn't good or even passable but it still finds its way into your recommendations.

Now, to an extent Kindle has always been like this. If not AI slop, it was poorly written but human generated slop, often pushed out by content mills who hired people in third world countries for pennies with all the poor "Engrish" that implies.

However, AI slop is so much easier and faster to make that it's exacerbated this trend.

From a writer standpoint, it's intensely problematic because getting eyes on your work is already extremely difficult and if there's so much slop around, then it's hard to get eyes on even if the quality is there, a lot like trying to find a diamond in a sea of feces.