The whole sell of AI to businesses is it's cheaper than paying people. If it is, in fact, not cheaper, and has just been sold cheaply to get everyone hooked on it (as tech companies have done repeatedly), it's hard to see where it goes.
And in a heartening turn, it seems the public is starting to see use of AI imagery as an indicator of lack of quality and/or potential fraud, which completely off-sets any gains from not paying artists.
Multiple websites have switches to AI written articles to game the Google search algorithm, and that's why I switched to a different search engine on my PC. (need to figure out a good way to do that on my phone. I really like the premise of ecosia!)
I'm bouncing between Ecosia and DuckDuck at the mo. Haven't had any issues with ecosia so far, results are certainly no worse than Google is anymore and usually better, and it seems to be on the level with its goal.
