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This commentary argues that instead of humans polarizing into AI slop consumers and a creative minority, the acceleration of AI will push ordinary people to reflect on what matters, eventually undermining "opium-of-the-people" content like AI-generated short dramas.

There is a view that humans will polarize into two extremes: the majority will continue to indulge in AI-generated content and "opium-of-the-people" products, while a small minority will leverage AI to vastly enrich their creativity. I think there's a third perspective worth recognizing: the accelerationism of this technology will lead more and more ordinary people to start reflecting on what truly matters in their lives over a long period of time. So ultimately, this will instead hasten the demise of "opium-of-the-people" products. AI-generated short dramas are a fairly obvious example. In a fully competitive market, as the cost of producing AI short dramas keeps dropping, it will eventually evolve in two directions: The first direction is a flood of low-content, low-quality AI slop-style short dramas. These will obviously fizzle out completely after a brief burst of popularity, because the sheer abundance of content will actually raise everyone's aesthetic (or anti-aesthetic) standards. Of course, we'll also see a small group of creators using AI to produce a lot of excellent, imaginative scripts that don't exist in real society. I believe this group of content creators will grow larger and larger, emerging from nothing to become a non-negligible category in the content landscape.
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There is a view that humans will polarize into two extremes: the majority will continue to indulge in AI-generated content and “opium-of-the-people” products, while a small minority will leverage AI to vastly enrich their creativity.

I think there’s a third perspective worth recognizing: the accelerationism of this technology will lead more and more ordinary people to start reflecting on what truly matters in their lives over a long period of time. So ultimately, this will instead hasten the demise of “opium-of-the-people” products. AI-generated short dramas are a fairly obvious example. In a fully competitive market, as the cost of producing AI short dramas keeps dropping, it will eventually evolve in two directions:

The first direction is a flood of low-content, low-quality AI slop-style short dramas. These will obviously fizzle out completely after a brief burst of popularity, because the sheer abundance of content will actually raise everyone’s aesthetic (or anti-aesthetic) standards.

Of course, we’ll also see a small group of creators using AI to produce a lot of excellent, imaginative scripts that don’t exist in real society. I believe this group of content creators will grow larger and larger, emerging from nothing to become a non-negligible category in the content landscape.

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