You could literally rip off an older author's pulp fiction story beat for beat, and if it's told expertly it will sell well and history will remember you and not the original trucel tier guy.
Plots are literally worthless in the 21st century. It's the reason idea guys are memed on.
Your epic fantasy story that details the economy of the 3rd country your heroes passed through will be mogged by high IQ Kurt who writes about a random wench having an affair with an expy of The Thing monster under a female pen name. Because he knows how to write and you don't.
Artists aren't safe either. If you can't replicate the 3DCG background with half a dozen different lighting VFX and a closeup of the character turning into squiggly lines as if he's being obliterated, it's over, pack it up, go home.
What I mean to say is that it never began. And with AI, the masses will consume slop that uses what you did but you'll never see a cent for it.
Plots are literally worthless in the 21st century. It's the reason idea guys are memed on.
Your epic fantasy story that details the economy of the 3rd country your heroes passed through will be mogged by high IQ Kurt who writes about a random wench having an affair with an expy of The Thing monster under a female pen name. Because he knows how to write and you don't.
Artists aren't safe either. If you can't replicate the 3DCG background with half a dozen different lighting VFX and a closeup of the character turning into squiggly lines as if he's being obliterated, it's over, pack it up, go home.
What I mean to say is that it never began. And with AI, the masses will consume slop that uses what you did but you'll never see a cent for it.
