> I'm worried it'll be used to spam the internet with thousands and thousands of souless generated videos
I agree, and I think when that happens, it will tend to increase the value of curation. High quality curation that is, probably done mostly by hand, as opposed to the at-best-mediocre automated curation that is commonly used.
It could be bad for things like YouTube, for example. I think there will be an arms race between generated video content one one side and automated curation on the other. I mean, you can still leverage viewer choices for curation (looking at what people are watching a lot of), but that is just shifting the burden of curation to users. Few people will be willing to sift through dozens of cheaply generated crap videos to find something they actually want to watch.
I agree, and I think when that happens, it will tend to increase the value of curation. High quality curation that is, probably done mostly by hand, as opposed to the at-best-mediocre automated curation that is commonly used.
It could be bad for things like YouTube, for example. I think there will be an arms race between generated video content one one side and automated curation on the other. I mean, you can still leverage viewer choices for curation (looking at what people are watching a lot of), but that is just shifting the burden of curation to users. Few people will be willing to sift through dozens of cheaply generated crap videos to find something they actually want to watch.