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The real takeaway from Sam Altman's "AI as electricity" comment
Altman said this week that AI will be sold like
electricity. Metered. On demand. A utility.
For content creators and marketers, this isn't abstract.
Think about what happened when video production tools
became cheap. YouTube exploded. Not because video
technology was new. Because the barrier to creating
video dropped low enough that millions of people
could suddenly publish.
The same thing is happening with AI-powered content.
When AI tokens become a utility, the cost of generating
voiceovers drops. The cost of translating content into
12 languages drops. The cost of repurposing one piece
of content into 30 formats drops.
Right now, a lot of that is expensive or manual. Cloud
APIs charge per character, per minute, per whatever.
You're watching a meter while you create.
When that meter runs close to zero, the volume of
content explodes. And the competitive advantage shifts
from "who can afford to produce" to "who has the best
ideas and the best distribution."
I'm building AI-native content tools right now as a
solo founder. Five-plus products. One person. No team.
A decade ago I tried building multiple products solo
and failed miserably. The infrastructure didn't exist.
Today, AI is that infrastructure. One person can now
ship things that would have taken entire teams.
People ask me constantly if AI is a bubble. I push
back every time. I'm in it every day, building real
products. This feels like electricity going mainstream,
not like tulips about to crash.
For the content people here: when the cost of AI-
generated content drops to nearly zero, what changes
in your strategy? More volume? New formats? Different
distribution? Curious how you're thinking about this.
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