[EGreg]

Amateur storytellers will be replaced too… as this thing goes exponential, it will create a glut of content where previously we had scarcity.

In about 10 years from now, nearly all the activities - playing music, composing music, animation, live action footage etc. and yes storytelling — will all be mostly automated. And curation of them, too. It will be like you knitting your own sweaters… most people wouldn’t see the point. They could just buy an endless variety of shirts on Amazon.

[sophacles]

In Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, written during the rise of photoshop (such things were already being predicted back in the 90s), people eventually reject tv/movie style media and go back to plays since the generated media is just too easy to pump out an chintzy.

This one resonates with me a bit.

We already see this in goods to an extent "artisinal" vs "cheap dropshipped crap".

People find value in seeing other people do something well (see the popularity of maker videos, or the number of people commenting on someone's performance in a movie rather than the plot, etc). It also captures the idea that art isn't just a product, but a method of communication and is inherently human.

I dunno, just rambling before my morning coffee.

[throwaway4aday]

I think that will be true for "mass produced content" things like music for specific activities or uses e.g. workout music, background music for TV/movies/games/restaurants. I think there will still be a lot of people involved in higher value productions. They will definitely be using AI generated content as a multiplier but will likely add their own composition and tweaks to it in order to make it fit their vision. The first step in any design process will probably be to generate a bunch of related content kind of like 3D modelling artists dig up a bunch of reference material before starting their work except the reference material will probably be able to be directly incorporated into the finished piece. There will also be a bunch of purists who do everything themselves, this is obvious since there are still a lot of people who knit their own sweaters.

[visarga]

> where previously we had scarcity

Great to know someone saw everything. I thought a human could never finish watching any genre.

[alrlroipsp]

I'm glad that you have no idea about the future.