AI's are trained on human generated content.
Human generated content exists because humans generate the content. Humans express themselves, and are often paid to generate the content. They're paid money through revenue streams via site visits, click through, ad revenue.
That revenue exists because humans use services like Google to find the content, and are served ads in the process as an example.
If people are using services like ChatGPT to find answers to queries, then google doesn't get the traffic. If their end site, or Google doesn't get the traffic, then the human that generated the content doesn't get the revenue. If the human doesn't get any revenue, then they stop generating content.
If human generated content is stopped, then the only content being generated to train AI's is AI generated.
There's a few leaps of logic in there, but I don't really see how that's solved without some large shakeups of this multi billion dollar industry we call the world wide web.
Is this something to be worried about? Is it just a "Video killed the radio star" moment? Is it just the professional lamplighter getting into an uproar about this dangerous new-fangled 'electricity' technology that's putting him out of a job.
Goodbye six figure salary SEO experts, hello six figure salary AI prompt experts?
A lot of people are in an frizz because Marvel Studio's Secret Invasion intro was using AI generated art. Other than short term moral dilemma, why the heck wouldn't they if they save themselves five figures by getting a whiz-kid to run a few AI prompts rather than fork out for a team of CGI designers.
Reaching out to an editorial coordinator to create an advertising campaign for a product launch: Photographer, assistants, model, post-production, set hire, venue hire, catering, travel, - $15,000 per day, 3 day shoot.
Sit down with MidJourney and run "imagine prompt Editorial photograph of a blonde woman, intense gaze, leaning on her hand. :: Rolex watch on the wrist, realistic detail. --style raw" -
free, and took two minutes.
It's not perfect, but how long until it is? I could feed it an iphone shot of the watch I wanted on her hand, and then you've got specific products being dropped into generation models that do 99% of the work for you.
Why wouldn't you?