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Hate to tell you but you're the only one thinking that. The average consumer could not care less.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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That's hyperbole. Perhaps the majority of consumers don't care, but some do.
It's not hyperbole. I said "the average consumer", not "all consumers".
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In my anecdotal experience which is of course the most solid and accurate (/s) people I’ve talked to within my circles do care just not enough to do anything. Pretty much along the lines, “of AI, weird, anyways”
The average consumer cares about the quality of a product as well as how affordable it is. AI...I dunno, it doesn't really make a product "look" better if it's ads or packaging or what have you, have a "meh" AI art vibe. AI art, because of its ease of generation, is vast becoming a sign of genericness.
Why is that a good argument? The comic doesn't say "all people will think like this" or even imply it.
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Yupp. Videos like these fit that pretty well. Unfortunate decision, since the toothbat is really useful.
I mean, even the crappiest advertising literally makes Big Tech trillions of dollars, so unfortunately I don’t think is reality.
the problem is commoners won't notice it's AI
Tested. Verified*. Obviously it depends on the quality of the output but we're already past the point where the best models, with appropriate fine tuning, are noticeably AI on first glance.
*I work in market research, this is a sample of 3 creative tests.
Pro tip you don’t actually have to normalize this reaction because high effort media will always stand apart from low effort media, regardless of how it was created. My problem with “normalizing this reaction” is because I literally know dozens of artists who have been falsely accused of using AI generated imagery when they literally just are surrealist photo collagists and idiots automatically think that anything in that style is AI and harass actual artists for their actual work that they made with their actual hands
AI is about increasing profits. Consumer choice is not a thing when 99% of companies follow the same profit driven incentives. Reactions like this, while good, are not going to change anything. You cant make change through consumption. You must make change through labor and labor organization.
This sub is just filled with "consumption" based solutions to the point that I feel it is almost negative in trying to fight the actual problems with AI and art.
I want to see more pro union and pro labor posts here. This "change through consumption" crap is really getting old.
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Actually the more a company spends on advertising the more it's going to be a cheap scammy product. Have you ever bought anything off TV? I don't recommend it. $29 minimum for things that should be in a $5 misc bin at Walmart. Why? You are paying for their marketing.
I mean it IS normalized. They don't care to put effort into marketing and proper product representation. What does that speak about them, as a company?
Hard to differentiate
Better to assume they are cheaping out on the product or overcharging you if they can afford to advertise
Trust me, you're going to have zero ability to discern what is AI generated in less than two years.
I already can't easily identify most of it I'm screwed
Not too sure about that, that might be the case but currently, they would need much more training to not mess up facial features, to make images truly lifelike and to follow prompt instructions better.
I've used dalle a fair bit and I came to the conclusion that you will never get a truly accurate representation of a person, such as hair on a bald persons head, stubble turning into a moustache, tons of wrinkles for no reason, etc. It only seems good at generating cartoon characters, even then though, there are still inaccuracies.
It would be so hilarious to revisit this confident (dare I say it: AI levels of confidence!) statement in two years when AI has crashed like every other previous wave of AI tech.
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Their only solution is "throw more data at it!"
The technology definitely can get better, but you shouldn't assume it will. Just look at the people developing it.
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