How will human influencers compete with perfectly crafted A.I. influencers? Imagine a Belle Delphine for any niche audience. It'll be impossible to retain any attention as a limited human being, so they will mostly disappear from social media, and social media itself will transform. Maybe the response will be to take it offline, and go influence in the real world?
Maybe people will emotionally revolt against A.I. and start creating curated "A.I. free zones" filled with anything that wouldn't be likely to be generated by an A.I., and the new hipsters will look down on A.I. generated content or whatever is derivative of that content.
On the flip side, many people are likely to embrace A.I. content and start creating insane things that wouldn't be possible before. People will wear A.I. generated fashion accessories, and create media that can only be traversed and experienced through an A.I. companion.
Ultimately, it will change our psychology, and the way we think about the world and ourselves.
We are memetic creatures, and most people simply enjoy the same things.
AI might help us find new things with mass appeal but niche audiences will continue to not matter so much in comparison, culturally and economically.
However I’d guess the corporations would push really hard to own anything that “sounds like” the Beatles to prevent that.
Just try browsing the most popular images from Midjourney and you'll see a lot of stuff that stands out, and these are the popular images that most people find acceptable. The iceberg goes much, much deeper when you dig into the galleries of individual creators.
https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/top/
https://www.deviantart.com/tag/midjourney?cursor=MTQwYWI2MjA...
I cannot imagine the psychology of such a society.