It’s long past time that we realized these systems are not benefitting culture. Creators and consumers alike are pushed into preset formats that we may ultimately have no organic interest in. By giving in to algorithmic feeds, we are letting tech companies determine our tastes.

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

Many insightful cultural theorists and strategists have written about this struggle: Kyle Chayka on the filterworld flattening culture, Matt Klein on cultural stasis amidst creative surplus, and Beth Bentley on meh-ification. The focus has generally been on how algorithms have warped contemporary culture.