Recent Publications

Taiwan Economic Research Monthly The AI Wave: Trends and Impacts on the Cultural and Creative Content Industries ‧ The rapid proliferation of AI applications and tools into everyday life, with generative AI emerging as a particularly transformative force, is disrupting the production, dissemination, and operational models of the cultural and creative content industries, prompting active debate on industry ecosystems, market mechanisms, and regulatory governance. This issue examines these ecological shifts from a macro perspective, moving beyond conventional industry classifications to trace generative AI adoption across distinct content forms such as text, voice, music, visual imagery, and audiovisual media, and across different value chain segments, identifying key issues, business model variations, and their corresponding opportunities and challenges. Two prominent issues receive dedicated attention: consumer engagement and labor and talent. Concerns over labor rights, talent pipeline gaps, new competency demands, varying audience acceptance, trust deficits, and legal and ethical challenges are driving the industry toward collective consensus-building and active problem-solving. Individual articles further span a wide range of dimensions, including human-machine collaboration, market segmentation, the human premium, IP infringement, international market expansion, investment risks, and the strategic value of digital and cultural sovereignty. We hope stakeholders will continue channeling disruption into broader possibilities, leveraging AI as a catalyst for industrial transformation and developing application models suited to these industries' unique characteristics.