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I smell something off here, picking a fight against AI in the 3D world is one the worst possible grounds
I wouldn’t put it this way. And this comment is about economic points not etical ones:
I wouldn’t pay anything AI generated that I could generate myself.
But generating by myself I still save on the artist’s work hours.
Same thing AI coding - I bet all paid software now contains code by an AI. So that means it does have a value.The value is nowhere close what they are trying to sell you on tho.
Because any value from it is just value that has been stolen from someone else.
What the “but it’s a useful tool!” people have never realized is that AI is just an attempt to sell existing human output back to us. The models are trained on our output, most often without consent. Ideally, if that output is so useful, then those people whose work is in the training data should be compensated.
Royalties work the same way and on the same principles. But AI models cannot directly query their training data in any way that makes their sources identifiable, and this numbers problem is commonly used as an excuse for why these folks cannot be compensated. That’s just a red herring, and it’s not the public’s problem.
The whole endeavor should not exist. It’s a good example of blindly developing something while having absolutely no concept of its negative impact on society.
Because any value from it is just value that has been stolen from someone else.
If you take a picture of a chair and turn it in a click into a perfect 3D model with AI, who are you stealing from?
I’ve been using AI to make a free weather app that isn’t cancer. i would never in a million years charge for it. it is a work i am creating for the public using publicly sourced knowledge. the fact it’s taken 5 months and hundreds of my own personal hours to produce these projects doesn’t negate the fact ALL OF THE CODE has been generated via sources i didn’t ask for permission from, indirectly.
I’d have to be some kind of asshole to charge for my programs. I feel bad enough including a donation link buried deep in the UI. (I’m neurodivergent and receiving money makes me feel like dog shit and guilty so really I’m being selfish i guess)
Save you a click: one online marketplace shows people don’t want to buy AI-generated 3D assets. No actual news on what this means for the entire rest of the economy.
In the case of CGTrader, a long-established online marketplace for 3D assets used by video game developers, film editors, and 3D printing nerds, users are sending a clear message. As 404 Media reports, 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.
It has negative value. It steals from human creators to make a worse product that’s “cheaper” so a company doesn’t have to pay a human.
It also destroys storefronts. Why would I bother shopping at this CGTrader if all they’re going to do is try to peddle me garbage? If I wanted garbage I would have just used google image search.
Yes, I keep trying to tell people, the second you cram ANY AI generated content in your production, people will immediately assume the whole thing is AI slop, and will immediately click off. Thats what I do, and everyone else’s does. I can’t believe the number of handmade videos that use fucking AI for the thumbnail. EVERYONE thinks it’s AI, and never watch it.
It’s a molestation of our entire human estate, starting with the deceased.
How could you say that when AI is so great for helping companies lay off human workers, helping the military bomb children, helping the government build watch lists of people it doesn’t like, or helping law enforcement create a surveillance state?? :(
If i want a 3d slop model i will prompt it myself.
ALMOST!
So you are saying it has value?News News News
Latest from Anthropic and Open AI:
Internet site claims AI generated content has value!
Don’t get left behind, embrace your AI.It seems the only reason people aren’t buying it is because its not good enough. AI generated 3d models will soon have their opus4.8(idk which model was the breakthrough at the start of this year) moment and then that will flip as it has for other AI generation.
Why would anyone buy an AI-generated 3D model if you could just buy a Claude license and have the AI make it for you from scratch?
Why would anyone buy an AI-generated 3D model if you could buy one created by a real human with real skills?
Never underestimate the power of convenience. (aka laziness)
But, maybe the market for these AI generated 3D models will tank as the AI models improve. We’re in a period where there is a lot of churn-- no one knows what the economic landscape for any given AI impacted market will look like in the near future.
It could be that the cost of flooding this market with AI generated 3D models is low enough that it still makes profit, a la spam mail. Or it could be that AI models improve such that it’s trivial for people to prompt for their own 3D models and the need for this marketplace vanishes entirely. Or somewhere in the middle.
No one knows, and anyone who says with certainty that they do is selling you something.
Edit: two different types of models being discussed. Clarified.
As the article says, people are already not buying AI generated 3d models. So the price can’t really tank further.
The article has this to say:
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.
That’s not $0.
It kind of is, though.
Is it? Maybe I’m missing some context you have, but if they are hypothetically selling $90,000/day (a made up, probably too large number) then AI generated 3D models bring in $1,000/day.
That’s not $0/day.
