Artistic supply and demand flipped?

Historically, the creative arts have operated under a principle of scarcity. Unique artistic talent was a precious rarity, both cherished and rewarded.

AI tools will liberate every individual from the previous limitations of creativity, talent, or technique. Artists will no longer need to spend years developing their representational skills or style. AI will trigger a tsunami of artistic content. From music to literature, arts to film, AI will supercharge our ability to bring our ideas to life.

The oversupply of creative content will devalue its transactional worth, prompting us to question what we continue to value when any creation we can imagine is one simple click away.

As the quantity of content grows, will the quality of ideas keep pace? And will we choose to engage with challenging art that expands our thinking, or succumb to the allure and superficiality of confirmation bias?

Curation will become an increasingly valuable art, more than ever before. And as access to creativity and creation is democratized, will the loss of area expertise and exclusivity mean the importance of artists decreases? Are we looking at the death of the singular artist as a genius?

Amidst this deluge, AI’s ability to catalog and record on the blockchain each artist’s contribution to collaborative projects, might preserve individual credits, rewarding every creative’s input, ensuring that both originality and collaboration maintain their worth.