Generate or Discriminate? A Strategic Tool for Content Creators to Leverage AI Technologies under Network Effects

This study aims to investigate how content creators strategically choose between Generative AI and Discriminative AI under platform economic rules.Facing audiences with heterogeneous technology preferences and technology-specific network effects, we examine when creators adopt identical or distinct AI technologies, and how these choices affect market competition and profitability.Fig.1 Technology selection equilibrium area map (α D >α G ,)