AI in the content ecosystem

AI will have a huge impact on the content ecosystem. In fact, it already has

Media

Look back at the IT revolution on the content ecosystem. Before the personal computer was invented and became popular, we only read books and magazine produced by professional writers and editors. With the social media platforms in IT era, we also absorb lots of information generated from common users. This information are not formal and accurate enough, but it’s the essential part of all content we get everyday. AI can help everyone to produce content much faster and effective. But the drawback is that AI will produce much more fake news, even fake news already existed for a long time. On a deeper level, we don’t hate AI-generated content, we only hate fake and useless content. From the writer’s perspective, they should be able to publish it as long as they can take responsibility of content, which mean author agree with the content and will be able to defend the content. But this didn’t solve the trust problem in the content ecosystem. Trust will be more precious because it’s much easier to product convincing fake news. Trust is always important and expensive in serious markets, like entrepreneurship groups, B2B groups, bank system, even basic social system. they will be punished if they give the unreliable informations. In the futrue, maybe we will have a media platform only for authenticated users. Right now, I know authentication is used in some good dating platforms.

Academic

I used AI to help me re-write the the manuscript recently. I won’t be shamed to release it because I can take responsibility of whole paper. Then, this will involve intellectual property. AI won’t get the IP unitll it can be accountable for the final papers. Another example is the 722 manuscripts released by OpenAI on 6 October 2026, these papers are judged slops because neither OpenAI nor the model can be accountable for these papers. In contrast, these manuscripts will be much more reliable if they are released by mathematicians with help of AI.

Videos

Videos are a another example how the content ecosystem changed because of AI. AI lowered the cost of producing content. So there will be much much more personalized videos/content for everyone. Filter bubble exists in social media, the size of filter bubble will be smaller and amount of bubble will grow a lot.

Video is only for content producing, but AI is for everything, like tools, Apps, website, ads, online shopping products.

Summary

What AI bring is power, for both good and evil.

Then, AI will let you “buy” and “sell” anything on the internet.