[echelon]

Everyone is getting disrupted by AI sooner or later.

The trick is to use AI to do things it would take you five lifetimes to learn. It's a tool to lower opportunity cost, financial capital, and human capital. That gives anyone leveraging it a much bigger platform, and the ability to dream big without resources.

If you can become your own "studio", you're the indie artist of the future. You don't need Disney or Universal Music backing.

Anyone can step up and do this. The artists being threatened can use these tools to do more than they've ever done by themselves.

[JohnFen]

I don't think that will do a whole lot to protect you from the economic harm. If everyone is producing more, the value of the works are reduced. At best, nobody will will make more money, they'll just be working harder to stay at the same place. More likely, there will simply be no room in the market for as many people and most will be out of work.

[mlboss]

I disagree. Youtube model has shown that multiple people can produce videos and still earn profit from it. There are thousands of niches that creators can target which big studios don't even touch because masses might not be interested in it.

We can a Big Bang without all the stupid romantic stuff. We can have different ending versions of Game of Thrones. So much stuff is never made because it takes so resources to produce them.

I think the market will only grow when this technology is available to everybody.

[JohnFen]

I genuinely hope that you're right and I'm wrong!

[nebula8804]

In the music industry that appears to have been the case since iTunes hit the scene. The ease of distribution has enabled countless artists that nobody has ever heard of and will never listen to. Yet some have risen up and become hits despite this.

[jprete]

The problem isn’t capabilities, it’s having a market that’s saturated with supply twice over - once by the ability to make infinite copies of the product, the other where there’s an infinite supply of distinct high-quality products.

Subcultures used to provide a counterbalancing force here, but they aren’t doing so well these days.

[echelon]

My interests still are not being catered to.

I watch films and media, listen to music, and I'm only truly fully satisfied a single digit number of times a year. That's a consequence of not enough being created and experimented with.

The long tail is longer than you can imagine, and that's what form fits to your personal interest graph.