Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that's still more money going to "the arts" than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.
I wish more Lemmy communities took action against the 10-12 accounts who spam stale memes all day, but I think they are afraid of appearing too "dead" to outsiders.
Will inevitably become overrun with slop. The large platforms have had human slop on them for years, AI is only speeding it up.
What protects the Fediverse is that instance owners have no financial incentive for growth because every piece of content, every federated instance increases their hosting costs. And any instance that somehow becomes too big to properly moderate will quickly become mass de-federated form.
The only thing that the report sees for certain in the current situation is a quick division into winners and losers in the AI race. Big players who are able to absorb the costs will emerge as victors.
Victors in what? LLMs cost orders of magnitude more to operate than they generate in revenue and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon as costs keep going up.
Yes the way I see it, is if someone is spending $60/month on 3-5 creators that's still more money going to "the arts" than if the same person spent double that on streaming services.