| Mini-mills. AI isn't going to jump in there and do you another Sistine Chapel or Godfather. You have a restaurant, it needs some random Chinese/Italian/Mexican artwork. Are you going to buy a poster? No way, just generate it and hang it up. You have a kid who needs to be entertained. Do I get a team of 200 to write me Frozen, world class singers to sing the songs, and animators? No. We'll start with our own 5-minute Peppa Pig style cartoon. Your widget shop needs a website. Do you go to Getty and find a shot of happy couples or landscapes taken by a professional photographer? No, nobody cares if your happy family has 7 fingers on each hand. Generate the photo, plonk it on your website. As AI swallows the cheap, low-risk stuff, it also gains scale to do higher forms of art. Someday your detective story with weird sweaters and cops with a fcked up home life will also become AI generated. Eventually it will climb mount impossible. |
It took Amazon a decade to have a serious impact on the economy, even though it was working from day one. Now we have AI technology that's only half working. So what the impact will be and when is anyone's guess.