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AI can accelerate human creativity by handling tedious tasks. The proliferation of AI-generated content will raise the bar for quality, creating a premium market and higher demand for authentic, human-created work.
Contrary to widespread fear, data shows demand for skilled copywriters is rising. As AI floods the market with generic text, companies desperately need creative thinkers to strategize, edit, and craft compelling stories. Even AI companies are making multi-six-figure investments in creative roles.
Users are dissatisfied with purely AI-generated creative outputs like interior design, calling it "slop." This creates an opportunity for platforms that blend AI's efficiency with a human's taste and curation, for which consumers are willing to pay a premium.
Copywriter Alex Cattoni applies basic economics to AI content: as a tool becomes more available, its output becomes less valuable. This flood of generic, AI-generated content creates a market premium for unique, human-driven creativity and critical thinking, which are now comparatively scarcer.
AI will empower creators by allowing them to translate ideas directly into finished products, bypassing traditional technical skill requirements like musical rhythm or film production. This shift will place a premium on raw creativity and vision over trained execution.
For knowledge workers like authors, up to 50% of their time is spent on tedious "chores" like organizing sources or creating timelines. AI automates this drudgery, freeing up mental bandwidth for higher-value creative tasks like narrative construction and prose.
Sam Altman argues the AI vs. human content debate is a false dichotomy. The dominant creative form will be a hybrid where humans use AI as a tool. Consumers will ultimately judge content on its quality and originality ('is it slop?'), not on its method of creation.
As AI agents eliminate the time and skill needed for technical execution, the primary constraint on output is no longer the ability to build, but the quality of ideas. Human value shifts entirely from execution to creative ideation, making it the key driver of progress.
The flood of AI-generated assets isn't a new problem but an amplification of an old one. It simply highlights that much of human-created content was already mediocre. AI removes resource barriers to production, making "taste" and "quality judgment" the true differentiators—skills that are now more valuable than ever.
As AI tools level the playing field for video production, the most valuable differentiator will be uniquely human skills. Your creativity, personality, and ability to craft a compelling story will become a premium asset that AI cannot replicate.
AI will commoditize the *act* of creating content (the 'doing'). The value will shift entirely to the *idea* behind the content (the 'thinking'), making strategic creativity the most valuable skill.