The entertainment industry faces a troubling paradox: while audiences retreat to familiar comfort viewing and automated content floods platforms with minimal effort, investment in original programming is producing diminishing returns. Research from Kapwing reveals a startling truth about the modern content ecosystem. Analysis of YouTube‘s recommendation algorithm shows that roughly one-fifth to one-third of videos ... Read more
The problem: AI slop is replacing a tiny percentage human slop but the growth of AI data centers might mean that they can replace a greater percentage of human slop in the future.
Meanwhile, executives at big studios are continuing their campaign of producing boring, unoriginal shows. Their great hope upon hope is that they too will be able to replace their boring, unoriginal shows with boring, unoriginal shows made by AI.