[elawler24]

The definition of art seems to be the polarizing issue here. "But is the world better off with more documents that have had minimal effort expended on them?" Value is attributed to high-effort tasks that are a scarce resource [1]. When AI creates something in a short amount of time, derivative of the past, and available to everyone, it will be considered cheap. By this definition, there's still room for mass-market creative works to be created by AI. Netflix already does that, even with humans in control. But high economic value or notoriety will only come from taking the first draft and doing something physically or intellectually innovative with it for the first time - which I relate back to what Chiang writes.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218...