I think all those Steve Spielbergs hiding among the 8 billion - without connections and without hollywood names, having their day without getting filtered out by investor gremiums playing it safe - will produce enough material to be happy cineast for life.

Many Internet technologies like Youtube or soundcloud gave content creators direct access to an audience. If you were funny/creative/talented/attractive/in the right place at the right time/etc you could cut out the middlemen and capitalize on that directly. What is the hidden talent these Spielbergs possess that AI will enable? It's doing the writing, videography, etc. I imagine at most these hidden Spielbergs will be filtering output, like looking at a book of wallpapers and choosing what they like. Maybe some great movies get made, but it will just be the result of selection effects on the sheer number being made.

YouTube is well poised for this.

How will anyone find them, though, if there's so much slop that people stop looking?

Human reviewers a la the Criterion Collection.

It's not information overload. It's filter failure [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

I still think we should allow for grant hunting. If you can disprove a paper, you get the grant money attached to it. Make it a economic worthy endavour to destroy bad science.

How would you handle non-competitive grants

Safety deposists or insurrance by labs/universities- if your work is later refuted- your employer has to pay for that bad investment..

Then you would just fake your results in order to steal someone's grant

Well, GTA 6 was basicallly thrown away and rewritten, so after the first crunch, ever more crunch to get the 2nd attempt to the finnishing line.

> GTA 6 was basicallly thrown away and rewritten

How do you know? This sounds like an unverified rumor.

I agree this is unsubstantiated. I follow NXL and Giantbomb and havent heard thus reported.

Or some companies resist- and form fortresses- little markets, where only non-ai companies are allowed to enter and where only non-ai products can be bought. Economic arcologies.

I find it deeply ironic, that iran has blocked helium supply- while it relies on AI created slopaganda to subvert its advesary. Its one of those afterwits of history.

> iran...slopaganda

A US soldier i know commented that the iranian ai slop is "scary and powerful".

Thats normal..poor countries do not have public infrastructure, because if they had it would become a settlement.

If that bubble bursts soon, thinks may get cheaper. So as google and co start to outsource "aicosts" by pushing local models, when will that bill be due?

"Google" and "local" is an oxymoron. The same goes for Amazon and Microsoft who all sell cloud compute. They'd all prefer that the computers of the future are all dumb terminals that can't do anything without being logged into their platforms.

So what materializes now is basically tech debt returns on the "move fast and break things" paradigm?

Its mostly people who get too much positive feedback and stories on the web, only good things is a huge signifier of a person passing. Get some haters like the rest of us Cliff ;)

Its the "Lets invade russia in winter" moment of the mbas.