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Very good perspective from the creator's vantage point.

From the consumer vantage point, I do worry. Even Apple's "curated" App Store is already flooded with quickly made knockoffs... as close as they can get in the hopes that they'll confuse just a few folks into a purchase. It works well enough and it's profitable enough that an entire industry does factory-style it for every popular title. (Like a digital Shein.)

The internet is already full of the quick-launch low-value-add content that AI excels at creating. We're about to see a whole lot more! The good news is AI can also be very effective at prescreening and filtering out all this content vying for our eyeballs. Right now it feels like me vs the AI content cannon, but soon it will be AI filters battling AI content while the machines sort out what makes it to my digital devices.

Honestly there's enough junk content out there that I don't see generative AI making much of a difference.

What we need is better habits around peer-to-peer recommendation. I need people I know with good taste to spend more time talking about the games that they like!

Are there Reddit subs for that?

If anyone can join a subreddit you can't guarantee that spammers won't join up to promote junk.

I'm having great recommendations from invite-only Discords these days.

Not all of us have access to elite invite-only communities, nor the name recognition or clout to solicit invites to them.

Create your own and invite people who's opinions and taste you respect to join it.