A combination of millions of people with production skills in California, and a huge domestic market able to spend billions has fuelled one of America’s biggest exports - TV & Movies. They’re not the biggest exports in dollar amounts, petroleum brings in almost 50 times more, but they give America something else apart from money - soft power via an outsized place in global cultural consciousness.
What happens when that sharply recedes? Soft power isn’t as easily counted as the size of aircraft carriers or the number of missiles, but its effects are real.
Why else would the US government be so eager to “regulate” AI?
I’m sure the fact that you can pretend to be anyone has nothing to do with it.
I’m sure it’s just about Hollywood’s hegemony.
It’s definitely not because of deepfakes and propaganda, no sir.
Like a million reasons, which are all over the internet, and futurology spaces in specific.