Does the market buy AI slop? What it pays for, if not hours of work
It does, but not everywhere and not for everything. A cartoon with a cappuccino for a head the viewer happily accepts from a neural network. News and product recommendations are harder. The market really does not pay for hours of work, but that does not mean it is indifferent to process. It pays for the consequences of process: a repeatable result, a truthful image, someone answerable when things break, and the provenance of a thing. And the line where 'nobody cares' begins is often drawn not by the reader but by the owner of the channel through which the content reaches them.
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