I’m seeing more and more of this concern amongst friends and coworkers, and journalists/artists in particular are flabbergasted:

Cinema, theatre and great novel writing has always had the power to entrance, to get us to suspend our disbelief. But we knew where the border between fantasy and reality ran. Now with AI we are entering a world where those lines will be harder to discern – and many people just don’t care.

We once distinguished reality from fantasy and used this difference for high art: interpret authors’ perspectives to embrace emotion, challenge thought, and employ critical analysis. Perhaps I’m lamenting the loss of preference for older formats. Though long-form television remains popular, the proliferation of ultra-short-form video and the lack of authorship or authenticity are the new norm.