I think the problem isn’t so much if consumers value things made by humans more than the final product, it’s that the biggest players in the entertainment industry clearly don’t and are only interested in making a final product as cheaply as possible. They don’t care how the sausage is made, and never have. They only care if they can make it inexpensively and sell it efficiently. It’s the age old tension that has always existed between art and business when the artist isn’t in control of the business end - but it’s about to get amplified 1000 fold. The consumer will consume whatever is put in front of them. If they are only given AI generated content, they’ll consume it rather than consume nothing.
I'm not personally a fan of AI art or text, and I find the outright copyright theft utterly immoral. However, what has been created with this theft is a set of tools - they could be good or bad, they have their uses and their limits. With that said, if the tool is worth $10bn, you've got to assume that it's worth that because it saves paying someone else (creators) more than $10bn.
I think the problem isn’t so much if consumers value things made by humans more than the final product, it’s that the biggest players in the entertainment industry clearly don’t and are only interested in making a final product as cheaply as possible. They don’t care how the sausage is made, and never have. They only care if they can make it inexpensively and sell it efficiently. It’s the age old tension that has always existed between art and business when the artist isn’t in control of the business end - but it’s about to get amplified 1000 fold. The consumer will consume whatever is put in front of them. If they are only given AI generated content, they’ll consume it rather than consume nothing.
I'm not personally a fan of AI art or text, and I find the outright copyright theft utterly immoral. However, what has been created with this theft is a set of tools - they could be good or bad, they have their uses and their limits. With that said, if the tool is worth $10bn, you've got to assume that it's worth that because it saves paying someone else (creators) more than $10bn.