It’s difficult for independent artists to live as independent artists today, even without the specter of a “trillion-dollar groundbreaking plagiarism machine”[0]. So far, we’ve still been producing original work, primarily because it’s what we do even when we’re not making money from it. It’s a blessing and a curse.
This is not to dismiss the concern. I simply wanted to state that artists will find ways to keep moving the creative bar forward.
[0] I really like this turn of phrase, thank you for sharing it.
This is an extremely different difference of scale, which does constitute a meaningful difference from prior technologies.