Aesthetic production is in a death spiral: cheap to make, impossible to automate
round · x · 2026-09-16
A quoted observation doing the rounds argues that aesthetic production is now cheap to produce and free to distribute, yet still impossible to meaningfully automate — leaving creative output in a "death spiral." The post frames this as a structural dilemma for the creator economy in the AI era: when supply explodes but automation can't replicate taste, attention becomes the scarce resource.
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