It is nice to see, but I fear it will be the same as with papers and their news and internet. I could buy a paper and read it but why would I?

The same will most likely happen with human written news and cheap AI slop news. Why would anyone pay more for higher quality when you can have low quality cheap product?

Look at food for example. Price is most important factor in the choice of what you are going to buy. I will probably not happen now, in few months or in even few years but it will happen if models will still be advancing.

Food would actually be a pretty good example - people pay extra for higher quality food, local farm food, whatever all the time. They go out to expensive restaurants that talk up their techniques and sourcing. There's a lot of defined space for refined food like this.

If ai generated and human written content ended up like that you would have a pretty decent shot at a fully human authored blog or substack that people paid for specifically, or human written books specially curated.

You could say the same about horses: people still riding those, have stables, buy expensive ones or even bread ones themselves. Does not change the fact that common people usually drive cheap cars.

Of course everything can be argued via analogy that way, but I think outcome of cheap, mostly correct but often completely wrong news will be more probable.

Just like todays social media