re: backlash against AI-generated Ghibli-style art the reaction here boils down to one simple fear: irrelevance what took artists years of dedication, practice, and struggle can now be replicated effortlessly by ai for nothing. resentment for this loss of exclusivity is understandable but futile___LINEBREA... See more

Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more