The AI Niche

Written By Joe Smolen

For a long time now, we’ve been consumers demanding, and willing to pay extra for branding that promises with words like naturally-sourced, free-range, cage-free, all natural ingredients, non-GMO, Gluten-free, USDA-organic, stainless steel, real wood, even “guaranteed authentic”(whatever that is). Did I include “fresh-caught”? Besides, we’ve seen branding that makes such promises endure and proliferate. The exact same thing will continue to be demanded of art. Every day people sitting on freeways and at traffic lights on their way to work buy books. Some will buy shameless AI and AI-enhanced, sure. But creators need not panic. AI will find a niche, you bet. AI will toughen competition, don’tcha think? But in future, the label “Non-AI” and its derivatives will be sought-out by thoughtful consumers everywhere. And, hey! It’s better FOR you! Artists, rest your hearts and breathe!

Joe Smolen

Joe C. Smolen, AKA L.W. Smolen is an Oregon Coast writer of insufficiently exaggerated notoriety. Never having been arrested, he lives with his wife Sherrie and the ghost of their black, Standard Poodle Rico Suave in a really pretty good, Prairie Style house they built themselves. Since the Literary Magazine Fleas on the Dog of Kitchener, Ontario has permanently stopped accepting submissions, in order to read L.W. Smolen’s 2021 short fiction, A Real Guy, you are referred to joecsmolen.com. Some of L.W’s other, subsequent short fictions are archived at Olive Tree Review, Ginosko, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Wilderness House and etc. Kirkus reviews once interpreted his work favorably.

https://joecsmolen.com
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