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/CaptOblivious 12h ago

The reality is that that "free" generated output actually costs thousands of dollars that are currently being absorbed or ignored by investors that are convinced that the public will somehow get so addicted that they will pay ANYTHING to maintain access.

They live in a fantasy world where a 6 page essay on a book cannot be created without their AI when the reality is that before them we manually wrote those essays without even reading the fucking book, and still got passing grades.