the marketplace is being flooded by AI-generated assets, representing one in six models — but they only account for only $1 out of every $90 in revenue.
Sorry, but that’s not valueless.
And if someone can pump out near infinite trash for nearly no cost and earn 1% of what they’d earn by actually doing real work, they’ll continue to flood the market because it is economically viable, unfortunately
if someone can pump out near infinite trash for nearly no cost and earn 1% of what they’d earn by actually doing real work, they’ll continue to flood the market because it is economically viable, unfortunately
True, it’s a similar reason why spam, phishing, and various internet scams exist. Only a very small portion of what they put out generates any money, but it’s enough to keep them going and presumably more than what they think they’d earn doing real work.
Big players like OpenAI lose money on every non-paying user. They can do this because they expect to be the one who takes it all in the end. But this will not last. There will be a day the remaining companies will stop giving out freebies and the wide arrange of options we have now will shrink and the remaining options will enshittify. If their costs rise, their prices will increase and they might find themselves in a position not making any money anymore.
Sorry, but that’s not valueless.
And if someone can pump out near infinite trash for nearly no cost and earn 1% of what they’d earn by actually doing real work, they’ll continue to flood the market because it is economically viable, unfortunately
True, it’s a similar reason why spam, phishing, and various internet scams exist. Only a very small portion of what they put out generates any money, but it’s enough to keep them going and presumably more than what they think they’d earn doing real work.
“there’s a sucker born every day”
Big players like OpenAI lose money on every non-paying user. They can do this because they expect to be the one who takes it all in the end. But this will not last. There will be a day the remaining companies will stop giving out freebies and the wide arrange of options we have now will shrink and the remaining options will enshittify. If their costs rise, their prices will increase and they might find themselves in a position not making any money anymore.
AI can be self hosted trivially.
Trivially - if you have already spent a fortune on a gaming pc that is.
No. You’re talking about training.
Running is trivial. Firefox does local offline translations with AI models that run fine on very shitty old computers without any GPU
This is not about text, but images, 3d models and video. The workload of those is not comparable to the workload of text generation.
Yo, dude, spend your electricity on mining BitCoins instead. That shit is no doubt useless, yet more useful than AI slop.