If something is entertaining enough to capture people’s attention, and is also infinitely abundant, it will probably undermine the market for higher quality, hi

If something is entertaining enough to capture people’s attention, and is also infinitely abundant, it will probably undermine the market for higher quality, higher cost alternatives. AI doesn’t have to be as good as traditional media to destroy it - it’s more likely to be competing with Tik-Tok for attention. But in the long run it probably _will_ be as good as traditional media, and instantly customisable to your tastes to boot. I suspect it will be a difficult pill to swallow, but we are likely over-estimating the depth and complexity of our souls, just like every other AI task. Some people will still insist on human-authored works and swear they can tell the difference. Money will still be made putting humans on stage to perform. Older generations will insist everything is worse and will possibly be right. I’m sure there will be several billion deprecatingly self-referential AI retellings of Prometheus and Pandora to show us what a bad idea it all was.