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The problem with all these AI companies and products is that they all over-value the content itself. The content is not the thing that is valuable, its the pers
by iamleppert 1y ago
The problem with all these AI companies and products is that they all over-value the content itself. The content is not the thing that is valuable, its the person who creates it and the community and culture that forms around it. These are things that require people, a lot of time, luck, and can never be automated. You see this all the time with people who spend huge amounts of money and effort making things that may even be great and high quality but never gain any real value. Companies do it all the time too. It's very hard to predict what will become valuable, and what will not. Just because AI will let you create more of something, or do it faster or cheaper -- it doesn't matter as long as you are missing some external factor that makes something high quality popular or valuable. And yes, there is always an external factor at work, a lot of times many factors. This is further evidenced by the fact that quality itself of something valuable sometimes doesn't need to be there (although it is more likely to be there, than not).
Just by magically dropping the content price or effort to $0, doesn't matter because the content itself has no or little to no intrinsic value. There isn't suddenly going to be an expanded market of people who will listen to your AI generated music or buy your AI-enabled product.
If tomorrow, I could make a random kid on the street sing just as well as Taylor Swift, or even if an exact perfect copy of her emerged somewhere, it doesn't mean she has any relationship to the value of Taylor Swift.