Comment by 59nadir
1 day ago
It doesn't cost less to get the thing you actually want in the end anyway, no one in their right mind would actually launch with the founder's AI-produced assets because they'd be laughed out of the market immediately. They're placeholders at best, so you're still going to need to get a professional to do them eventually.
You say this but I see ai generated ads, graphics, etc. daily nowadays and it doesn't seem like it affects at all people going or not going to buy what these people are proposing.
In the context of the hole digging analogy, it seems like a lot of holes didn't need to be carefully hand-dug by experts with dead straight sides. Using an excavator to sloppily scoop out a few buckets in 5 minutes before driving off is good enough for dumping a tree into.
For ads especially no one except career ad-men give much of a shit about the fine details, I think. Most actual humans ignore most ads at a conscious levels and they are perceived on a subconscious level despite "banner-blindness". Website graphics are the same, people dump random stock photos of smiling people or abstract digital image into corporate web pages and read-never literature like flyers and brochures and so on all the time and no one really cares what the image actually are, let alone if the people have 6 fingers or whatever. If Corporate Memphis is good enough visual space-filling nonsense that signals "real company literature" somehow, then AI images presumably are too.
Sometimes the AI art in an advert is weird enough to make the advert itself memorable.
For example, in one of the underground stations here in Berlin there was a massive billboard advert clearly made by an AI, and you could tell noone had bothered to check what the image was before they printed it: a smiling man was standing up as they left an airport scanner x-ray machine on the conveyor belt, and a robot standing next to him was pointing a handheld scanner at his belly which revealed he was pregnant with a cat.
Unfortunately, like most adverts which are memorable, I have absolutely no recollection of what it was selling.
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> For ads especially no one except career ad-men give much of a shit about the fine details, I think.
You think wrong.
This stuff is easy to measure and businesses spend billions in aggregate a month on this stuff. It’s provably effective and the details matter.
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Case in point.. I listen to my own AI generated music now like 90% of the time.
Interesting. For me knowing that any form of entertainment has been generated by AI is a massive turn-off. In particular, I could never imagine paying for AI-generated music or TV-shows.
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And I instantly switch off any YouTube video with either "AI"-plagiarized background music or with an "AI"-plagiarized voiceover that copies someone like Attenborough.
I wrote the above paragraph before searching, but of course the voice theft is already automated:
https://www.fineshare.com/ai-voice-generator/david-attenboro...
No idea why this is downvoted, making AI music customized to your exact situation/preferences is very addictive. I have my own playlist I listen to pretty frequently
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Prototypes being launched as products is so common it’s an industry cliche.
Having those prototypes be AI generated is just a new twist.
We see plenty of AI produced output being the final product and not just a placeholder.