AI crashed the cost of creating beautiful things — but the incentive to do so has plateaued
round · x · 2026-09-08
michaelmicasso observes that while AI has dramatically lowered the cost of creating beautiful things, the incentive to do so has plateaued and may even be slowly declining. round adds a sharper reply: 'taste matters little when your audience has none.' The shared insight: once AI removes the production bottleneck, the binding constraint shifts to the demand side — whether audiences can actually appreciate better work.
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