It leads to an interesting paradox wherein human-written content becomes simultaneously more valuable and worthless. Increasing amounts of human effort becomes

It leads to an interesting paradox wherein human-written content becomes simultaneously more valuable and worthless. Increasing amounts of human effort becomes worthless because an AI can produce the same result. But at the same time, the AI needs the human-generated content as an input (at least for now), and so it will place a priority value on it. Also, human-generated content will become valuable due to basic economic scarcity: when the world is flooded with AI-generated content, buyers will pay a premium for human-generated content. This implies we will need reliable methods for identifying the provenance of online content, which may spell the end for viable anonymity in many places, or at least accelerate us toward some kind of proof-of-personhood (a hard problem to solve in a privacy-preserving way, and indeed one that leads to the very same questions of what makes us human and gives us an identity in the first place). Short of such a reliable method, the best option for identifying human-written content will be filtering to content that was posted prior to ~2023. In a world of AI-generated content, your shitposts from 2015 may become a valuable commodity.