Another example that comes to mind is this David Perell’s series of observations about “everything looking the same now”; in this case, company logos all moving to a narrow band of sans serif fonts. There are many possible explanations here, like homogenous design tools, but the Occam’s Razor answer is simply that these brands have global audiences... See more

[Modern AI is] a camera that tricks us into thinking it’s an engine that “generates” rather than “sees” things.

A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023