Comment by pjc50
2 days ago
It's all second and third order effects. You'd then be less impressed if you found the zoom out toothpick video was itself just made with AI. And even less impressed if you zoom out further, and discover your entire feed is just different AI toothpick sculpture videos, because that's what went viral yesterday so now everybody has prompted one overnight.
There are about 250k games on Steam and over 125M users. What happens when full sloppification means there's 250M games on Steam? You scroll forever without reaching a game that more than a few other humans have played. But you can't distinguish it from the thousands of other similar games. Choice is a fatigue all of its own.
One game per player eh? At that point we won't need Steam, you'll just put on your thinking hat and the computer will synthesize exactly what you're in the mood for.
(Well, maybe Steam itself will do that — VALVE's been researching brain computer interface entertainment for years :)
Steam used to be tightly controlled but they loosened it over time - originally only Valve games, then Valve partners, then you had to pay a lot of money, then only a little money. Maybe now they'll tighten it again.