Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Growing old is bad m’kay?

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I’d say it’s similar to how youtube creators are burning out in part due to the way these things work.

Seeing the prices these 3d printing crowdfunding projects ask for stuff I really wonder how anyone could build a viable business out of that.

And as with Youtube … only the lucky few get to have any real success/profit. The vast majority will never ever make more than a few pennies, which with the pressure to release stuff periodically just ads up to an unprofitable job with an insane schedule.

Maybe the bubble for 3D printing is about to burst for real?

With physical products there’s the actual manufacturing process that kind of creates a natural delay between releases, which helps keep the pace to a managable level for most. (one could argue that same thing happend with Guitar Hero where the insane release speed effectively killed the entire genre within a few years as corporations put short term greed before long term sustainable tactics)

Digital content has no restrictions like that. .
Add in ‘AI’ tools … and those without morals or ethics can create content faster than most sane people could consume.
Plus people are getting used to having ‘new stuff’ every week, so they switch the moment a content creator can’t hold the pace any more as well.

(related note : I’ve noticed a growing amount of what feels like (‘AI’) generated websites that have no real content. Dead Internet theory is no longer a theory … )

OTOH … I’ve been getting more reliable results from talking to ‘AI’ as oppposed to simply googling it myself.
(it also helps that you don’t have to search throuh ‘promoted’ links before getting to the good stuff as well)

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