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He deleted the comment before I finished typing my reply. But since I put in all that effort in this, I will take the liberty of replying to him, via your comment. My apologies. This is what I had tried to reply to him.
I hear you. and honestly, I politely both agree and disagree.
You're absolutely right about the job impact. This kind of creative disruption WILL displace traditional roles. It’s not hypothetical, it’s already happening. But this isn’t unique to AI.
There used to be full-time typists who took dictation and transcribed by hand. Those jobs collapsed in the '90s with the rise of DTP and word processors. Painfully, yes. But people moved on. New roles emerged, different, sometimes unrelated, but born from the same wave that wiped out the old.
The same happened when cars replaced horse-drawn carriages. And when photography displaced portrait painters. Film editing rooms shrank from 10-person teams to one person with a laptop. This is the oldest story in labour history.
As for your second point, that with so much content, "nothing means anything anymore", I understand the fear. I get the anxiety. Feels like, meaning gets diluted when there's an infinite supply.
But by that logic, we should say, "There are too many cars/planes and too many destinations available, so no destination means anything anymore." But clearly, that’s not true. We adapted. We now choose "which" destinations matter to us. Meaning didn’t die. It diversified.
Yes, we’ll soon have more AI films than anyone can consume. But this has been true since the printing press. Since YouTube. Since blogs. Since podcasts. There are already more books than any one person can read in a lifetime. That didn’t kill literature. It just made personal taste and cultural selection more important.
We’ve already passed that threshold in almost every creative domain. We always reach a saturation point, and then develop new filters: curation, taste, reputation. So meaning and value persists. Curated. Filtered. Selected.
You’re not wrong to worry.
But it’s also true that you’re resisting a landscape that has always been shifting. The premise of life for millions of years has been brutally simple:
Adapt or die.
AI didn’t rewrite that rule. It just brought it to your doorstep a little faster than ever. Whether this pace itself is now too much, is a different argument altogether.
