It's not like it's saving people money. Instead it's letting them create things they never could have before

It’s saving huge amounts of money for a lot of small businesses. I’ve seen AI posters, business cards, fliers, logos, etc from accounting firms, plumbers, electricians, chippies - you name it. Whether these ad-campaigns are actually working for them, I don’t know.

I see those too. But almost none of these were paying someone design the Flyers previously. They just had shittier flyers the owner pumped out of docs

> The numbers clearly show the average user does not care about the AI look because they can't really tell the difference between human-gen and AI-gen.

Do you have a link to the numbers that clearly show this?

The numbers of AI posters/signs/ads I see on the street…

So nothing at all. Most people would notice the difference between no ads everywhere, and ads everywhere, would prefer no ads, and still there are ads. That there are ads tells us nothing about people.

Do you need statistical numbers for every information you receive? I don’t have any numbers to show you besides the fact that everyone I have spoken to in the last 6 months knows how to generate an image on ChatGPT. I work in the construction industry, and 100% of the companies I deal with have at some point posted an AI-generated poster on their social media, or created their flyers and business cards. YMMV.

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Well, you said "the numbers show". But anyway, not being able to tell the difference and not caring is very different from "having tried it at some point".

> everyone I have spoken to in the last 6 months knows how to generate an image on ChatGPT.

That goes without saying. If you can speak to them, if they have a pulse, they can "generate an image". A cat walking over a keyboard can generate an image. That is the lowest bar ever.

The average user is very unlikely, if preferences are high dimensional, and they are.