There’s a trend I’ve seen over my career, of people building high-quality content that slowly builds respect and fandom. But when they start putting out quick support content, they see the overall number go up. Often the response ends up being to eat away at what people connect to in order to move that number up faster. That consistently ends up building a higher house of cards to fall off when the numbers can’t support the connection. The companies I saw do this were because of YouTube. YouTube wasn’t the problem, it was people’s desperation to make the line go up. I have no reason to believe AI won’t be exactly the same. Lots of people will rot out their value by trying to overproduce at all cost. And others will build empires of fandom and loyalty using the new technology. As AI becomes a more stable and reliable place for humans to build, most of the fear and hate will fall away. What will still be harder to recover from is how much people have undermined their value by spamming noise instead of connecting with people.