Everything Is Television
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The article 'Everything Is Television' explores how various forms of media have converged into a television-like experience, with commenters discussing the implications of this shift on how we consume content.
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Like the phone made it so you could watch television on the bus, and made ad target more granular. Does AI grow that pot? Or just reallocate existing attention/$. AI video generation feels like a feature of Tik Tok, not a competitor.
ChatGPT grows eyeballs by expanding the amount of time spent on tools during work hours. Coding agents are in addition to time spent with an IDE. But other consumer purposes?