AI trash
Discussion started by protuberanka
The entire site's first pages are filled with cheap, generated junk. The previews are all crappy—also a generated 2D image. The models inside don't even meet minimal quality requirements. Everything is aimed at deceiving the buyer—and they load this content with thousands of models. The buyer is often unable to even see the desired product. Will anyone even do anything about this? This site has turned into a spammy dump of junk priced at $2-5. There are also endless sales aimed at selling models to AI agents for pennies. Sales are plummeting. Meanwhile, customer support has almost completely stopped responding. And, of course, commissions are raising. It seems the shareholders are squeezing out the last bit of money, posteriori turning a previously good site into an AI dump with unsold goods. Data libraries - which you earn a lot of money on now - will quickly become outdated - and no one will upload new content for you - because it is increasingly difficult to get through the two-dollar AI garbage - and everything is starting to lose its meaning
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This mirrors my experience. I've been buying models and commissioning artists from CG Trader for a variety of dev shops for years, and it seems like the site is being completely overwhelmed with extremely low quality AI slop.
And when you complain, the ai scammers (they ain't artists) get VERY angry about it.
I really don't want to leave for Fab, because Epic is hardly better, but really... what choices am I left with?
Yes, I know that many customers want good, high-quality content and are willing to pay for it—it's a widespread problem. But for some reason, websites seem to be in cahoots. They don't block this junk clogging their servers—instead, seeing sales decline, they try to push it higher in search results. They think people will rush for this junk at a discount or with a subscription. Managers and owners don't understand what they're selling and try to boost sales using the standard principle: cheap and plentiful is good. Turbosquid has suffered the same sad fate. Now they're experiencing a critical decline and a mass exodus of artists. They simply eliminated exclusivity for high-quality models, aren't raising royalties, and also changed the search results to push more cheap junk to the top. A year and a half of this tactic has passed, and they're on the brink of crisis. Although the scheme worked—selling quality at a high price. But after selling to Shutterstock, the brilliant managers decided that 3D models were like burgers—take two and get the third one free. It turned out that didn't work. The same thing happened to their photo stock—it's filled with junk, and according to statistics, profits are constantly declining.
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