Andrew McCluskey

if we could just put a big fucking neon sign up that says: "I'm not interacting right now so don't infer anything from my existence" - how fucking cool would that be?

For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it.

Decentralization is the kind of thing that only matters when troubles arise. It's like an insurance: most of the time you don't need it, but for the few times you do need it, you REALLY need it. Since we can't have "intermittent decentralization", turn it on & off with a switch, this means we need it permanently

The lack of specialized knowledge amongst the mainstream audience encourages cultural producers to create and distribute cultural works with minimum changes to pre-existing artistic conventions. The industry perceives mainstream individuals as conservative: They “like what they like” and prefer not to be confronted with radical change.