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Here is your liberal art!
Pop culture soothes and placates with a steady series of uncomplicated morality tales in predigested narratives where nothing ever really changes and so there’s no worry that the storyline will move in a way that hurts your feelings. Crowdsourced “content” is built on ephemerality.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
An accurate definition of an internet “creator” would have to be: someone whose income is determined by a platform’s algorithms.
Robin Sloan • Definitions
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Creative work gets lost if you don't have a platform to discover budding talent.
Tyler Cowen • Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts
Emilie Kormienko added
How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
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Near the end of last year, I asked myself:What do you want from the internet, anyway?
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
Sarah Drinkwater added
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
Keely Adler added