Not only is this wrong on multiple levels (there are lots of new ai-slop apps flooding the internet, and marketplaces e.g. steam has ~10k games marked as using ai), but it's always cringe when someone names something after themselves like this.

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callc a day ago | parent | next [-]

Source?

See contradicting data here: https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...

	▲	preommr a day ago \| parent [-]
		Those charts are horribly misleading. There's random articles you can find [0], or just use steamDB to see that (now that steam requires games to disclose ai usage) there's like 10k+ games made that use AI. Also you can see that there's jump in the number of games released from 2023-2024. Companies like lovable are reporting millions of projects that are basically slop apps. They're just not released as real products with an independent company. The data is misleading - it's like saying high-quality phone cameras had no impact on the video industry. Just look at how much of network tv is filmed with iphone cameras. At best you might have some ads, and some minor projects using it, but nothing big. Completely ignoring that youtube or tiktok are built off of people's phone cameras and their revenue rivals major networks. I am sorry, I just don't want to have this conversation about AI and it's impact for the millionth time because it just devolves into semantics, word games, etc. It's just so tiring. [0] https://www.gamesradar.com/platforms/pc-gaming/steams-slop-p... [1] https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/

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bccdee a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, but I think the argument they're making is, if AI can produce good, non-slop applications at high speed, why isn't there a glut of new, high-quality software? Slop kinda proves their point.

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preommr a day ago | parent [-]

Why do companies have games with crap performance if the underlying hardware is so good? Why did the avro arrow get scrapped? Why are there countries with energy prices much higher than what nuclear offers?

There's a world of difference between the technical capabilities of a technology, and people actually executing it.

	▲	bccdee 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah but there are zero barriers to market. France can't sell its nuclear energy to Australia, but anyone anywhere can release software. If anyone is exploiting this, it should be visible to everyone. Companies can release games with crap performance because nobody else is making the same game as them. The idea being put forth here is that, with AI, you can just clone someone's product for nothing. So why isn't that happening?