Food would actually be a pretty good example - people pay extra for higher quality food, local farm food, whatever all the time. They go out to expensive restaurants that talk up their techniques and sourcing. There's a lot of defined space for refined food like this.
replyIf ai generated and human written content ended up like that you would have a pretty decent shot at a fully human authored blog or substack that people paid for specifically, or human written books specially curated.
You could say the same about horses: people still riding those, have stables, buy expensive ones or even bread ones themselves. Does not change the fact that common people usually drive cheap cars.
replyOf course everything can be argued via analogy that way, but I think outcome of cheap, mostly correct but often completely wrong news will be more probable.
Just like todays social media