do people care about quality? recent AI buzz has generated a lot of low quality, objectively bad looking content, and I don't see much detraction.. quality requires refinement, and attention to the smallest detail, something that AI is not efficient at... yet... It may get there, but it seems a lot of people don't mind where it's at right now. but even outside of AI, it seems like maybe quality is less relevant to people in general. the highest grossing game, Minecraft, was poorly optimized, programmed in Java, and for the time, had abrasive graphics. but the gameplay and multiplayer causes this game to explode. short form videos are often lower in quality, but they serve a purpose. temu mobile gaming went from angry birds to extractive gatcha games, and low quality one off games. (obviously a financial reason for that, but people don't care to play the higher quality games enough to make them economically viable) I think as time goes on, we settle for less. if something works 90% as good as the last thing, it can become accepted. this process can repeat indefinitely, until you find the point at which the product is as low quality (cheap to make) and still accepted and purchased as possible. personally I prefer to consume higher quality content than I think most people do. If I hear an AI gen voice, I swipe away immediately. I'm not saying wether this is a good or bad trend. It depends on what you think is valuable. If you think global human enjoyment is most important, and the global population is generally enjoying newer, lower quality products, then maybe you are just the outsider. though I believe there are many local maxima that are easy to go towards than the global maxima here. obviously, there are products that defy my perception of the trend, but I still believe the trend will continue to gravitate to lower quality. it's up to high quality enjoyers to create products that can stand out, and inspire people to desire higher quality products in the future in order to change this trend. but I believe we are very stuck in our local maxima. it will take a large shakeup to cause change. but perhaps change isn't needed, rather, acceptance.