I've posted about this before, but this is just the hollowing out of the "middle" of the value curve. Most people want something that's good enough, and they'r

I've posted about this before, but this is just the hollowing out of the "middle" of the value curve. Most people want something that's good enough, and they're not willing to pay for something that's N+1 good at 2N price. Other people want something that's N+5 good and will pay 3N price. As AI pushes down the lower bound of cost for creativity, the "mediocre" content creators/programmers/writers are going to get squeezed. At the same time, this means there is an untapped market for the people who can truly be creative and do great work. Thinking the difference between the Sports Illustrated AI articles and premium sports journalism (The Athletic), blog spam recipes vs America's Test Kitchen, or CNN/Fox front page vs NYT/WaPo/Politico, etc. You're going to have to vote with your dollar to support the things you care about. If you're not willing to pay for the higher quality, you're going to get AI (or other "budget") content that's making it's money by just being good enough to get you to see the advertisements. It's a free market out there and you need to be aware that just a few percent of people (probably roughly similar to the lurker/poster ratios) are the ones that enable high quality content to be successful. The HackerNews crowd are significantly more likely to be able to actively support creative pursuits that they find valuable, so I'd suggest you do so! Otherwise, when we don't reward quality, why wouldn't people just be mediocre?