> If anyone can trivially create, every creation is meaningless.

Everyone has always been able to trivially create. We live in an attention economy, not a creativity economy. Meaning you can create crap (or ai slop) and people will consume it if you know how to get their attention.

Attention is what gets money. Creation is just fuel for attention. Quality is a part of the equation, but much less important than people generally believe.

Here's a legacy document explaining all this since long before ai or the internet was around: https://archive.org/details/TheManualHowToHaveANumber1TheEas...