A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier . As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experiences are hot, even in the written form. They have a libidinal energy that’s been drained from us in the current technological era. And we’re going to want to get that energy back.”

Second, because we can mass-produce “flawless” content, “flawless” content now feels cheap. It’s supply and demand: when you can generate 100s of blemish-free photos, podcast “recordings” without a single grammatical error, and detailed “research reports” in seconds, the value of these outputs drop to zero. AI made efficiency so simple that... See more

This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to... See more