I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more

I know people who get angry just from hearing the word authenticity . They insist it doesn’t exist. It never existed. It can’t possibly exist.

And maybe in their lives, as digitally constructed, it doesn’t.

This is the flip side of our culture of artificiality. Anything that threatens the dominant fakeness with reality stirs up an intense backlash.... See more

The decline of socialization is permeating our culture, and in response, we place a higher premium on social connection. We seek temporal realness not only because we are desperate for evidence of humanity in an AI slop-ified world, but also because we are naturally drawn to the increasingly rarified experience of genuine human interaction