The answer is in your question. "Empty calories" is a multi trillion dollar business in the food world. It will be the same in the digital world.

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sph 2 hours ago | parent [-]

McDonalds serves a need: human tend to get hungry.

What need does filling the Internet with AI-generated slop serve? No one is ever going to read those. As I've shown, sometimes they're not even selling anything.

The multi-trillion dollar business is for hyperscalers, but I don't get what slop creators get out of this. What are they spending money for?

	▲	seba_dos1 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> What are they spending money for? To prepare for the future use of these resources.
	▲	inglor_cz an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I wouldn't underestimate the market for AI videos. From funny to hyperpolitical/propagandist. One of the most globally recognized attribute of the recent US-Iranian war was the Lego cartoons. This sort of content will be soon churned out by everyone.