We already live in a world where a vast library of songs by musicians who play much better than you are readily available on YouTube and Spotify. This seems like more of the same?
I don't want to live in a world where these things are generated cheaply and easily for the profit of a very select few group of people.
I know the world doesn't work like I described in the top paragraph. But it's a lot closer to it than the bottom.
There will be two classes of media:
- Generated, consumed en-masse by uncreative, uninspired individuals looking for cheap thrill
- Human created, consumed by discerning individuals seeking out real human talent and expression. Valuing it based merely on the knowledge that a biological brain produced (or helped produce) it.
I tend to suspect that the latter will grow in value, not diminish, as time progresses
people said the world could literally end if we train anything bigger than chatgpt4... I would take these projections with a handful of salt
There’s no bright line between computer and human-created video - computer tools are used everywhere.
Rewarded how? 99.99% of people who do things like sports or artistic like writing never get "rewarded for doing so", at least in the way I imagine you mean the phrase. The reward is usually the experience itself. When someone picks up a ball or an instrument, they don't do so for some material reward.
Why should anyone be rewarded materially for something like this? Why are you so hung up on the <0.001% that can actually make some money now having to enjoy the activity more as a hobby than a profession.
Why am I so "hung up" on the livelihood of these people?
Doing art is a Hobby is a good in and of itself. I did not say otherwise. But when I see a movie, when I listen to a song, I want to appreciate the integrity and talent of the people that wrote them. I want them to get paid for that enjoyment. I don't think that's bizarre.
That world has only existed for the last hundred or so years, and the talent is usually brutally exploited by people whose main talent is parasitism. Only a tiny percentage of people who sell creative works can make a living out of it; the living to be made is in buying their works at a premium, bundling them, and reselling them, while offloading almost all of the risk to the creative as an "advance."
Then you're left in a situation where both the buyer of art and the creator of art are desperate to pander to the largest audience possible because everybody is leveraged. It's a dogshit world that creates dogshit art.
A better example would be Spotify replacing artist-made music recommandations with low-quality alternatives, to reduce what it pays to artists. Everyone except Spotify loses in this scenario.
The future with AI is not going to be our current world with some parts replaced by AI. It will be a whole new way of life.
Water cooler talk about what happened this week in M.A.S.H. or Friends is extinct.
Worse, in the long run even community may be synthesized. If a friend is meat or if they're silicon (or even carbon fiber!), does it matter if you can't tell the difference? It might to pre-modern boomers like me and you.
Virtual influencers might be a big thing, Hatsune Miku has lots of fans. But it's still a shared fandom.
What does social mean in a future that could just simulate it.
A world without fandom is one without sports. That seems deeply unlikely to me! Anyone can generate personal podcasts with NotebookLM, which people enjoyed for a bit but doesn't seem to have made any impact on actual podcasts at all.