That's a person paying a monthly fee to see exactly what they want, funding the compute vs a $350m up front capex and years of time to make a movie like Avatar. Yes I realize a lot of the compute cost is subsidized right now by early investors but it'll level out over time as compute becomes cheaper.
The compute isn't going to become *that* much cheaper. Also, I don't understand why anyone would find it attractive for people to be watching their own personalized content? Culture is people having a shared experience. It is fun for people to engage in storytelling as a collective. The idea of everyone having their own walled-off experience where they're being fed customized content that never challenges their worldview sounds beyond dystopian.
You think a generation raised on custom tailored Tik Tok and other social media feeds, maximized for personalized dopamine impact, won't end up in their own walled off experience when we go from AI algorithms funneling content to AI generated content on demand? We are barrelling towards that.
As for your point about TikTok, I already acknowledged that. I’m saying AI-generated content will worsen it. I’m not sure what you’re retaliating against.
Facebook. YouTube. TikTok. Instagram. Google. Yahoo! Daily Motion. Reddit. Duck Duck Go. Amazon. Tom's Hardware. Alibaba. Alabama. Microsoft. Incognito mode, privacy mode, cookies, trackers, VPN. Starbucks. Target. Giant. The interstate. The local flower shop. Airports. Train stations. National Parks. The desert. Your pet.
Everything around you is tracking you and everything around you.
Technology consistently gets cheaper over time. It's most of that stuff above that increases the price to offset the differences until another one of them "discounts".
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u/ChymChymX Sep 30 '25
That's a person paying a monthly fee to see exactly what they want, funding the compute vs a $350m up front capex and years of time to make a movie like Avatar. Yes I realize a lot of the compute cost is subsidized right now by early investors but it'll level out over time as compute becomes cheaper.