Text was never rare. What made it special was the people, their experiences, imperfections and the ways they expressed them. It may be corny to say but words do have power - to light up your imagination, let you visit worlds through the eye of the narrator, and spark that tiny flame which could lead to great discoveries.
AI-generated text has none of that effect on me. My brain just shuts down as soon as it detects it. My eyes glaze over and my fickle attention flickers away.
So, if anything, AI is making some human writing way more precious than before.
Does this apply to all AI-generated text? Don't you use ChatGPT or Claude, and thus read AI-generated text?
So human-generated long-form text was increasingly irrelevant to the world we live in already before LLMs. If you are, like me, a person who likes the stuff, one can only recognize that tidal shift in society, mourn it, and try to console oneself with the literary canon and surviving material from the early internet, while accepting this is a lonely endeavour.
Why develop a game if AI generated games makes them less valuable?
Why take a photo or draw something if AI generated imagery makes images less valuable?
Ultimately, just do the thing if it pleases you. Don’t worry about the value.
Some people will always find value in things anyway if they know they are human created.