No one is buying AI 3d models
2026-08-19 19:29:41.860907+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
404 Media: AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them
Futurism: The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value.
The second references the first, both are referencing CG Trader's 2026 Market Trends (direct Google Drive link), which notes that:
AI floods the top of the funnel but not the bottom: ~1 in 6 uploads, but only ~1 in 90 dollars of revenue.
and
Most who try it aren't satisfied yet: customer survey among CG buyers, 20% tried AI and found it not good enough and 7% use it only with heavy editing versus 5% who say it works well. The bottleneck is output quality, not awareness.
Which makes sense, there's not a lot of value to republishing something someone can generate themselves anyway.
On Reddit , ReasonablePaper8225 says:
The value is in the generator, not the output. No need to buy yours if I can make my own. Once the prices to generate skyrocket, the outputs will have value
Which is helping me think about LLM generation, right now it has zero value because the quality is so bad and the generation cost is heavily subsidized. At some point the generation cost will go up, and if the quality is there that'll create a market for spreading the generation cost across multiple users.