A Study of the AGI Era and the Industrial Organization of Media Content Production

Abstract

The backlash against generative AI is already strong and will continue to be so against AGI and ASI. In general, the sudden emergence of new machines and technologies always tends to cause people to reconsider the nature of human involvement. In the case of media content, this desire to emphasize the presence of humans is a factor that encourages the legacization and classicization of traditional content production methods and genres. This gives rise to the industrial composition that Baumol presented as a cost disease. This does not mean that AI will be dismissed, but it is possible that new genres and fields will be differentiated on the basis of AI.

Neither acceptance nor opposition to AI can yet be judged as predominant, and how the benefits and risks will be evaluated as AGI and ASI progresses will require continued close attention in assuming a free rather than regulated regime.