When image/video generation is basically free, what stays scarce? Taste, identity and ownership
remixeconomy · reddit · 2026-09-09
A Reddit discussion on what remains scarce once generating technically impressive images and video is nearly free.
The author guesses value shifts toward taste, recognizable identity, characters people actually care about, consistency across a body of work, audience, and ownership — especially relevant for artists and AI creators. The core tension: does creative identity become more valuable as production gets cheap, or less valuable as imitation gets cheap too?
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