But it's not a progression. There's no transitioning. It's just the introduction of new media alongside prior ones. And as a sibling commenter noted, the indiv

But it's not a progression. There's no transitioning. It's just the introduction of new media alongside prior ones. And as a sibling commenter noted, the individual history of these media are disjoint and not really in the sequence you suggest. Regardless, generative AI isn't a media like any of these. It's a means to transform media from one type to another, at some expense and with the introduction of loss/noise. There's something revolutionary about how easy it makes it to perform those transitions, and how generally it can perform them, but it's fundamentally more like a screwdriver than a video.