A machine might be able to make an objectively better thing, but that’s not what people are paying extra for. It’s the story about a real person applying their skills and effort to make it. Demand for that will likely never cease to exist. I bet it’ll just increase.
Well yes but they obviously can and do pretend to be handmade. Worse yet they make AI videos of a person making a product, that looks similar to, and probably significantly better than the dropshipped mass produced crap that they actually ship out.
People can be fooled. I remember my stepmom that sold “homemade quilts” she told customers they were made by a sewing circle in Tennessee. But truth was they came from Korea and most likely hand made in a sweat shop. So I expect a lot of “homemade products” to be faked. Like the fucking bookmarks that my wife order from Facebook and turn out to be bullshit made in China. Example of this bullshit: