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smswigart t1_j7a82bb wrote

I, for one, am genuinely excited to read the comics that 12-year-olds will be able to write and illustrate.

The thing that excites me the most about this technology is that it shrinks the distance between having an idea and materializing it. And, I think everyone has a few great ideas trapped inside them. For centuries, most people just didn't have a high-fidelity multi-media way to share their idea or vision with the rest of the world. With generative AI, some simple sentences can bring your idea to life.

We live in a time where most of the TV and movie studios only want to produce "sure things". So, we get franchises and sequels. But what happens when everyone sitting on a great concept can share it with the world at a relatively high production value and low cost. An explosion of originality awaits.

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yogiwake t1_j7cmww0 wrote

Won't we be spoiled by endless choices? The value we associate with any content will only diminish in my opinion.

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smswigart t1_j7cpcjo wrote

There’s already a million times more content than anyone can watch, but we have ways of socially promoting the good stuff so that it gets traction, recommendations, and people hear about it. This will also mean better content in thousands of niches where there are smaller but devoted fans.

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