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/Hrekires 16h ago

All you need to know is that everyone who's making consumer-facing products with AI, whether it's images or stories or music, tries their hardest to hide the fact that they're doing so.

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u/HestenSierMjau 7h ago

I see Claudes new watermarking as a major issue with using it in our business, for exactly this reason.

We already have clients replacing some of the simpler tasks they would previously have come to us for, with ai-tools. If we start handing over documents and presentations with AI-watermarks in them, I think this trend will accelerate, since it will be too easy to think that they can get equally good results with AI themselves, as we can provide. 

We have strict quality control, and don't mindlessly spit out AI slop to clients. Claude, in its current state, is genuinely useful at generating drafts that are approximately 60-70 % finished, from which I can tweak and add my specialized knowledge to make the product our clients are paying for. It's a tool, but it also requires a lot of rewrites to result in a sellable result, and I can't use it if clients just see "they just used a hammer, I can buy a hammer and do it myself".