The internet made distribution cheap; AI makes creation itself cheap
ericwdolan · x · 2026-09-26
In this original thread expansion, ericwdolan explains his core point: the internet made content cheap to distribute via crowdsourcing and UGC, but creation itself remained expensive—articles still needed writers, editors, photographers, designers and researchers.
AI attacks creation directly, letting one person do the work of an entire content team. This post overlaps heavily with the author's condensed follow-up on the same idea.
Related event: AI Is Collapsing the Marginal Cost of Creation(3 posts)→
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