Poll: As AI content grows, demand for authentic human-created content will rise. Autor vlákna: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Alex Lichanow
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AI non-content is being thrown at everything without regard for any actual need. It is showing more and more that consumers don't want this slop, but it's also more than clear that its makers don't care.
Demand for authentic human content is back on the rise, yet at the same time, many are still not quite back to actually wanting to afford it.
| | | | Philip Lees 
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I see we're back to the tedious speculative AI poll questions again.
For what it's worth, I think this "demand for authentic human-created content" is grossly overestimated. Most people are content to be fed unoriginal, mass-produced pablum most of the time, so that's what the mass media have given them. Original creative material has always made up only a minuscule proportion of the total - whether that be music, literature, TV, film, or whatever - throughout my lifetime, and I don... See more I see we're back to the tedious speculative AI poll questions again.
For what it's worth, I think this "demand for authentic human-created content" is grossly overestimated. Most people are content to be fed unoriginal, mass-produced pablum most of the time, so that's what the mass media have given them. Original creative material has always made up only a minuscule proportion of the total - whether that be music, literature, TV, film, or whatever - throughout my lifetime, and I don't see why that would change.
This discussion, and similar ones, result from selective human memory. I grew up in the UK in the 1960s - a "golden age" in many ways, for science and the arts, almost a new Renaissance - but most of what was produced during that period was utter trash that has since been forgotten. We only remember the good bits.
So the demand for good quality writing (or music, or TV) is a minority one, that will go on being satisfied by a minority of creative producers, and I see no reason why that demand would either rise or fall.
The rest will take whatever they're given, and whether that's supplied by AI, or by ordinary, untalented humans doesn't really make much difference. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Liena V.
Lotyšsko
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Philip Lees wrote:
The rest will take whatever they're given, and whether that's supplied by AI, or by ordinary, untalented humans doesn't really make much difference.
I see your point and do not disagree with it, but I still think there is a fundamental difference when it comes to AI. Sure, it has always taken a lot of writers/artists/athletes/politicians/judges/scientists/carpenters/etc. to get a few really good ones. Most will be average by definition, some – terrible and maybe only 1 or 2 will be brilliant. The fact that most of what has been done in the past has long since been forgotten or that something doesn't appeal to the masses (which has usually been seen almost as a proof of great quality on its own, by the way), or that humans have always managed to produce tons of sh*t also without any help of technologies justifies the use of AI almost the same way as giving everybody free access to nuclear weapons because there has been no time in history when people haven't been killing each other.
Supply often affects demand much more than the other way. The problem is not that AI content is average, at best, but that is sets the standard so low it does not encourage any creativity, questioning or brain activity at all. All there is is just input and output from a pile of garbage (and I won't even start about how and in whose interests it can and eventually will be manipulated). Yes, younger generations who will have never known a life "before" may be just fine with it and not care about what we, who remain from the previous century, think they are missing, but it doesn't make it look any less frightening.
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Lingua 5B
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I feel as if I’d been reading the same poll over and over for the past 1-2 years.
| | | | Philip Lees
Řecko
Local time: 03:45
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Liena V. wrote:
The problem is not that AI content is average, at best, but that is sets the standard so low it does not encourage any creativity, questioning or brain activity at all.
I see things rather differently. I think that creative people will embrace the new AI tools and use them to enhance and expand their own creative horizons.
Those who talk about AI destroying human creativity remind me of the people who booed Bob Dylan when he appeared on stage with an electric guitar for the first time.
AI does not "set" any standards: the people who use it do. And creative people will use the new AI tools to set new standards. For example, have you seen any of the artistic fantasy videos that are being posted on youtube now? Take a look at this, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7CdI49_CnM
You may not like this kind of thing, but don't tell me this isn't creative. I find it stunning. Imagine what an artist like Salvador Dali would have done with video tools like this.
And yes, there will be a lot of garbage. Just as there was a lot of garbage music produced after somebody invented the synthesiser, and a flood of bad writing once everyone had access to a word processor. But the technology is not to blame for that.
And while there may be a hundred E. J. Thribbs for every T. S. Eliot, a hundred Florence Foster Jenkins's for every Kiri Te Kanawa, the names people remember are (mostly) the ones with the talent.
[Edited to add "(mostly)" to the last sentence  ]
[Edited at 2026-01-23 06:30 GMT]
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First of all this all depends upon demand and supply, secod for a "authentic human-created content" we must have a client who ask for it and willing to pay. Then second a median who not want to eat all the profits in the name of opreation cost. Third we need a team who understand what a humanly creative contetn, and this is the most tricky part. Because then you need a native, competent reviewer and translator team. Which is nealy impossible for some languages.
| | | | Liena V.
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| A hammer is a tool, AI is much more than that | Jan 23 |
I am not sure we're talking about the same thing here, Philip. I am not saying it is not possible to be creative with AI or use it for anything good at all. I've seen some cool AI videos made by creative people and enjoyed them too (a lot of them are just making fun of AI, by the way), but I find it no less selective to focus only on the great things AI *maybe* can bring to some people while completely ignoring the very real issues of how it already affects the world and society in terrible ways... See more I am not sure we're talking about the same thing here, Philip. I am not saying it is not possible to be creative with AI or use it for anything good at all. I've seen some cool AI videos made by creative people and enjoyed them too (a lot of them are just making fun of AI, by the way), but I find it no less selective to focus only on the great things AI *maybe* can bring to some people while completely ignoring the very real issues of how it already affects the world and society in terrible ways and could become much, much worse in future by manipulating and limiting access to information while also eliminating any stimulus to learn, process and discover things by using one's own brain.
Philip Lees wrote:
AI does not "set" any standards: the people who use it do.
Exactly, and the more people will use it for every little thing they encounter in their daily life without giving it any thought – because why would they? – the lower those standards will be. Salvador Dali didn't need AI and we still know and appreciate him. Maybe he'd do something cool with it if he were with us today – because he's Salvador Dali –, but would we even have Salvador Dali if he had been fed AI content since birth and produced 300 pictures a day? Statistically speaking, a few of them could still turn out quite good, but what does it have to do with art or creativity? ▲ Collapse
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expressisverbis
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| Will rise and is already rising | Jan 23 |
Demand for authentic human-created content will rise and is already rising largely because uncontrolled AI use by inexperienced users is producing poor and sometimes dangerous results.
A recent KudoZ suggestion I saw yesterday illustrates this well: confident-sounding but incorrect answers that could cause real harm in professional contexts.
AI can generate convincing text, but it does not understand technical fields, nor does it bear legal responsibility.
Anyone posting such c... See more Demand for authentic human-created content will rise and is already rising largely because uncontrolled AI use by inexperienced users is producing poor and sometimes dangerous results.
A recent KudoZ suggestion I saw yesterday illustrates this well: confident-sounding but incorrect answers that could cause real harm in professional contexts.
AI can generate convincing text, but it does not understand technical fields, nor does it bear legal responsibility.
Anyone posting such content in a so-called technical forum without the necessary expertise does not grasp the scope of the error or the seriousness of the consequences, and ends up polluting collective knowledge.
Without human understanding and experience, AI use becomes risky rather than efficient. For that reason, knowledgeable and skilled humans are needed more than ever. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Philip Lees
Řecko
Local time: 03:45
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Liena V. wrote:
I find it no less selective to focus only on the great things AI *maybe* can bring to some people while completely ignoring the very real issues of how it already affects the world and society in terrible ways and could become much, much worse in future by manipulating and limiting access to information while also eliminating any stimulus to learn, process and discover things by using one's own brain.
Liena, I agree with you completely that AI - or more, accurately the abuse of AI by malicious-minded individuals and organisations - has the potential to do great harm to society. See, for example, this excellent British TV series from 2022, before people were even talking seriously about these issues.
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3831743001/?playlistId=tt8201186&ref_=vp_rv_vi_2
However, I was "focusing selectively" on the question of human creativity, and the demand for it, because that is the topic of this poll question.
To summarise my thoughts on this:
1. The people who appreciate high-quality creative work and are prepared to seek it out (and pay for it) comprise a minority whose size is unlikely to be materially affected by AI.
2. AI can substitute for human creativity, but only up to a mediocre level. On the other hand, truly talented artists will be able to take advantage of AI to enhance their creative output.
Here are some thoughts on how this applies to music from a recent youtube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrcUJI197Vs&pp=0gcJCYcKAYcqIYzv
He also draws parallels with other areas.
| | | | Daryo
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| More realistic ... | Jan 25 |
As AI content grows, demand for authentic human-created content will rise.
I would rephrase it as:
As AI content grows, too many people will never have seen anything but AI slop and will start thinking of it as 'normal'.
OTOH demand for authentic human-created content always existed and will still exist - but more as a kind of 'niche market'.
That's how it worked for various 'non-AI slop' in the past ...
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