How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

[Epic Meepo]

That’s not the point. It’s not about what you can afford or even personally desire. It’s about the nature of the product and its value.

Are you referring to the monetary value of a product? I'd argue that non-copyrightable content has no monetary value at all. Intangible assets such as content are only as valuable as society's intellectual property laws allow them to be. If intellectual property laws declare the creator of an AI-generated product isn't due any financial compensation if someone else distributes content they created for free, then the content in question has no inherent monetary value.

That's not to say someone can't add value to non-copyrightable content. If someone prints the content out, the physical book has value as a physical product. If someone hosts the content on a website, the website itself has value as a service provided. But I'd argue the value derives from the good or service itself, not the non-copyrightable content associated with the good or service. If someone wants to pay for a freeware download that comes with tech support, they're paying for the tech support, not the freeware.

If, on the other hand, you're referring to the moral or societal value of non-copyrightable content, then that's a different conversation altogether, one which I haven't yet addressed.

 

[Morrus]

Are you referring to the monetary value of a product?

Are you referring to the monetary value of a product? I'd argue that non-copyrightable content has no monetary value at all. Intangible assets such as content are only as valuable as society's intellectual property laws allow them to be. If intellectual property laws declare the creator of an AI-generated product isn't due any financial compensation if someone else distributes content they created for free, then the content in question has no inherent monetary value.

That's not to say someone can't add value to non-copyrightable content. If someone prints the content out, the physical book has value as a physical product. If someone hosts the content on a website, the website itself has value as a service provided. But I'd argue the value derives from the good or service itself, not the non-copyrightable content associated with the good or service. If someone wants to pay for a freeware download that comes with tech support, they're paying for the tech support, not the freeware.

If, on the other hand, you're referring to the moral or societal value of non-copyrightable content, then that's a different conversation altogether, one which I haven't yet addressed.

I'd argue that non-copyrightable content has no monetary value at all. Intangible assets such as content are only as valuable as society's intellectual property laws allow them to be. If intellectual property laws declare the creator of an AI-generated product isn't due any financial compensation if someone else distributes content they created for free, then the content in question has no inherent monetary value.

That's not to say someone can't add value to non-copyrightable content. If someone prints the content out, the physical book has value as a physical product. If someone hosts the content on a website, the website itself has value as a service provided. But I'd argue the value derives from the good or service itself, not the non-copyrightable content associated with the good or service. If someone wants to pay for a freeware download that comes with tech support, they're paying for the tech support, not the freeware.

If, on the other hand, you're referring to the moral or societal value of non-copyrightable content, then that's a different conversation altogether, one which I haven't yet addressed.

I don’t think I could have been any clearer, but no that is not what I said. But my interest level in the topic just evaporated. It wasn’t that high to begin with, and faced with saying the same thing a third time I’m just gonna nope out.

 

[Thomas Shey]

I think, within the gaming-publishing space, the thing will be found to be self-limiting. Yes, at the moment, if you take an individual reader, and individual passages, we can find it hard to tell the difference between genAI content and human-written content.

But, in aggregate, I think the truth will out - on the level of the overall market, I expect a sorting to happen, based on the quality of ideas in the product, rather than upon whether a single paragraph looks like it was written by AI.

This is one of the reasons I suspect AI art is going to end up being more acceptable in RPG books than purely AI text; at least at its current stage, I suspect the latter is going to stand out to a lot more people and in an area which is the priority point in buying a game text.

(Yes, I know some people are very sensitive to AI art. Some of that's legitimate, and some of it is people throwing a lot of false positives, and at least the latter group isn't actually impacting the issue meaninfully because they'll see it where it doesn't exist.)