[coldtea]

>So hypothetically one person can do a work of five. Note of that erases those people and their skills.

It just doesn't magically take them out of the universe or turns them into unskilled persons.

But it does magically erases those people with those skills as needed employees.

>The real underlying issue is that demand for it doesn't catch up because world's coincidentally fucked (through a series of unrelated issues, such as a quite few global conflicts) and economies aren't exactly thriving outside of a few niches du jour.

Why would that demand have to "catch up"? Just because we can do something faster or automate parts of it doesn't guarantee demand will go up, even in a good economy. No shortage of jobs that vanished forever in a similar even, despite the economy going otherwise up. Even more so now, where it's fucked up anyway, of course.

[drdaeman]

> Just because we can do something faster or automate parts of it doesn't guarantee demand will go up

It's not guaranteed, but why wouldn't it? It's digital entertainment and art, and the market is not saturated, there's still tons of ideas unexplored. If more people would have spare money they can spend on digital purchases instead of making ends meet - I'm pretty sure there'd be more people seeking ways to earn that money. Especially if production just got cheaper.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but every time production got cheaper for something that isn't obsolete (and art and stories are never obsolete), the markets became more and more flooded.

[coldtea]

>It's not guaranteed, but why wouldn't it? It's digital entertainment and art, and the market is not saturated, there's still tons of ideas unexplored.

Because there's only so much "digital entertainment and art" people practically care for, and already people were saturated and bored with all the crap out there pre-AI too.

[cognitiveinline]

You are indeed wrong, there's no infinite demand for everything

[drdaeman]

I surely can be, but I don’t see it so far. How the latter suggests the former? The demand doesn’t have to scale infinitely - I don’t believe the demand is or was anywhere near saturation.

[coldtea]

Most songs in streaming platforms (pre-AI even) sat there with no listeners.

Most of the flood of cable and streaming series had people over-saturated and bored.

Media consumption in general has resulted in a depressed population that tries to cut down.

[drdaeman]

Tons of music that nobody listened to is certainly nothing new. Predates “AI”, and even Internet for sure. What would be indicative are shifts in distribution of listeners outside of extremities (excluding top hits and low audience both), but I’m struggling to formulate a good criteria to watch out for (and then we probably don’t have the data). If not a distribution, maybe a dynamic of total listening hours over time adjusted for income and inflation fluctuations may suggest if there was ceiling or not.

There’s something to the series induced boredom, though. Increase in quantity paired with a feeling there’s not much to actually watch is something I can relate to. I’m not sure how to tell oversaturation fatigue from actual lack of interesting (at specific moments) media. Thanks, that’s something to think about.