Why wouldn’t AI change it? Everyone is expecting that it will, and it’s already starting to happen, just visit Amazon. The biggest reasons are that low-effort AI produced works by lazy authors & publishers may drown out the great works and make the tiny percentage far tinier and much harder to find, which may prevent many great works from ever being “discovered” and recognized as great. The new ability for many people without skill to use AI produce works that compete with skilled manual creation is a huge disincentive for creators to spend their lives studying and honing their skills. I’d bet there’s a hollowing out of the arts already occurring in universities globally. My interaction with college students over the last couple of years has very suddenly and dramatically turned into discussions about AI and concern about whether there will even be jobs for the subjects they’re studying.
I was the oldest millennial in my extended family that lived nearby, so I setup all my older family members internet - account, router & wifi, emails and FBs before I went to college. I'll bet some of those passwords are the same.
Gen Alpha should be able to be similar to that with us Millennials and AI - they will grow up with it, learn it, they will think about AI in prompts - not have to create prompts out of what they want (that's tough to explain) They will learn how to interact with AI as a friendly tool and won't have our hangups - specifically the ones regarding if they are awake or not, Gen Alpha will not care.
They will totally embrace AI without concern of privacy or the Terminator. Considering AI is about a toddler level the two will likely compete in many ways - the AI to show the ads and the kids to circumvent them as a basic example.
tldr: I think Gen Alpha ought to be able to just see AI content - there will be tells and those kids will kno them. So human content online especially the good stuff, but really all the many niches of it, should be all right in the future - even if good AI content is everywhere.
Wow, I rewrote this twice, sorry for the book - you mentioned something I've been thinking about recently and I obviously had way too much to say.
Exactly, which is why SkyNet won't send the terminators after us for a few decades, when Gen Alpha has forgotten about the movies and decided to trust the machines.