@paninid ... To stretch the analogy a bit: the high street already had 10,000 cafes on it. None of them made much money. Then overnight, all of those cafes became almost identical, and started losing money at a slightly slower pace. The human run Thai restaurant / bodega / 24hr bagels did well for a while.

Of course, it's much more nuanced and complex an analogy could ever reflect. Sigh

@paninid unfortunately, this presumes that a lot of people employed to create content are there because their creative skills were needed. The reality is that many are / were employed to write slop. "50 words on dog food brand X", "Clickbait headline for video" etc.

Human slop is being replaced by AI slop.

For clarity, I think this is shit on many levels. No one wants slop, however it's generated. I'd guess that few people love writing slop. Now it's fully automated...