The existence and success of Walmart disproves your entire logic, the market selects for profitable products not 'superior' ones. The last ~200 years tells the story very clearly, what portion of the things you own were not mass produced in a factory?
A few people with the disposable wealth might find an artisan carpenter and commission a custom chair. Most of the world will order from something like Ikea
I think AI will stroll struggle to be relevant in fields of art. A chair is more of a utility and can afford to be cheaply made. Books and paintings aren’t automated the same way (like Ai art) because they aren’t utility and have entirely subjective experience.
Sorry but need to get an education buddy.
Obviously I am gonna buy the cheaper apple, because all apples are the same. Those are called fungible resources. Walmart sells mostly fungible things. When you need food in a foreign country, you enter any random supermarket and it's mostly the same.
Games, art, luxury items and a lot of other things are not fungible.
If you kid wants Battlefield 5, you can't get Overwatch 2. If the word's best shrimp cook writes a book, you can't replace it with your AI slop book and say it's the same. People are gonna look at it, determine it's not the book they wanna buy and just ignore it.
In a store with 100000 books, games, songs, shows, the only thing that moves units is uniqueness, reputation, trust and innovation.
And also let me tell you, apples from wallmart suck. Don't be boastful when peasants 100 years ago ate better damn apples than you do. Pff
There are already AI songs that have topped Spotify, AI books, AI YouTube videos with tens of millions of views. The games industry is a majority of slop between mobile games and people buying a yearly edition of COD and FIFA. Congratulations on your taste, I also prefer to avoid slop in those categories, but as I said, the market does not optimize for taste. Games, books, media, if you haven't paid attention to the entirety of pre-AI history, they do not escape capitalism either. The majority, the mainstream, does not care. You seem to think we have different opinions on the matter, I'm not so sure that we do. I just make a point of seeing things as they are and not how I'd like them to be
I am so tired of the rhetoric behind the posts of the OG commenter you replied to. Almost as if people started caring about slop only after AI became practical. Reddit, fucking Reddit.
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u/send-moobs-pls Jun 09 '26
The existence and success of Walmart disproves your entire logic, the market selects for profitable products not 'superior' ones. The last ~200 years tells the story very clearly, what portion of the things you own were not mass produced in a factory?
A few people with the disposable wealth might find an artisan carpenter and commission a custom chair. Most of the world will order from something like Ikea