| A few points: - Culture is already stagnant. In the last 10 years I can't think of a single movement or trend that isn't about politics, and certainly nothing "refreshing". More than that, we have a calcified hubris towards new technology that means we don't even bother figuring out how it might impact us, nor how to use it properly. - We will get swamped with garbage content, and we will personalize all content (like generated music streams). We will stop hiring models, photographers, concept artists, musicians, writers, domain expert consultants, actors, etc. - This will trigger an existential crisis for many people (I know, do we really need more of that?). I don't want to be snarky or mean, but I also think putting it this way might get the point across as a proverb: "Artists" who thought they could get away with drawing anime waifus and uploading them to DeviantArt or social media for likes and commissions will have to face the fact that they're not wanted or needed. That goes for almost the entire creator and influencer economy. That brand of narcissism and delusion will get punched in the face repeatedly by AI, because everyone will be generating their own special waifus without them. Artists who want to create something new will be able to use AI to find the negative space where they can differentiate themselves. This dynamic of despair and searching might lead to a kind of renaissance. The potential for renaissance is there, but it'll probably be very painful, and I don't think anyone currently even knows what it would look like. |