High-touch vs low-touch is an interesting way to think about things. 

I seem to remember predictions of something similar happening to retail back when Amazon was coming on to the scene: people predicted internet shopping would eat most of retail and brick and mortar retail would become much more experiential. 

I wonder if this came to be? In my own life I do use online shopping for many things. But I don't really seek out experiential shopping in real life. Mostly my brick and mortar shopping is product specific. Or because I didn't plan ahead. 

Scoresby

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era - The Local

It's gonna be really interesting to see where this all heads.  If I had to guess, I'd say we're gonna bifurcate into two modes of information consumption:  a high-touch mode where you have frequent direct engagement with the content creator, i.e. through comments sections, live streams, Q&As, etc, and a low-touch mode where you just have to accept the probability that you are consuming AI generated content.
