AI providers are still competing for market share, and they are losing huge amounts of money betting the future profit will be there. The true cost of AI is not known to consumers yet. It has insanely large inputs in the form of data center infrastructure and electric power. Everyone making fun videos thinks it's free to use. It's not really, and it probably won't stay free for very long.
The issue is that whether OF, Nano Banana, Stable Diffusion, Instagram, Reddit or whatever else, it's an interaction with pixels on a screen. There's typically editing whether filter, Photoshop, or AI enhancement. We're already consuming computer generated content, whether there's a real human under there or not.
The rise of AI may spur the return of sessions as that's real and not replicable... as far as I can realistically imagine.
Of course, there was a time when I thought having a phone do a good job as a phone, GPS, and camera was unlikely. Boy was I wrong. Social media has replaced large swaths of human interaction in a very short time. Will Smith eating spaghetti has gotten a lot better in 18 months.
Spot-on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9a1nLw70p0
It's a long podcast, but I'd encourage a skim. Mo Gawdat is pretty smart. I truly believe that what he says about human connections is going to hold. We will love what our machines can do for us, but our machines will never love us back.
I predict never. AI will never replace women, gwm and porn