Consumers aren't going to consume derivative slop forever though. You can do it for quite a while, but as with the MCU, people do get bored. At which that point the market would self-correct as a scrappy firm of passionate individuals would run circles around incumbent giants that lost all their talent.

Have you seen tv for the last 50 years? Tons of people still consume it.

> At which that point the market would self-correct as a scrappy firm of passionate individuals would run circles around incumbent giants that lost all their talent.

... which requires these individuals to have skills surpassing AI, and as AI is only getting better... in the end, for large corporations the decision between AI or humans will always be price.