algorithms bury art.
ai plays know-it-all.
we scroll to avoid thoughts.
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In so many cases, the culture disseminated through algorithmic feeds is either designed to produce a sensory void or to be flattened into the background of life, an insidious degradation of the status of art into something more like wallpaper.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
To your question about what people starting out can do, I think there has been a crisis in criticism. I mean that in the most expansive way—not just hardcore criticism, but consideration of art. Think about the first album from some little band down the street from me. Who will write a review of that on the internet? No one. It was always hard to
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anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.
social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.
-paraphrased from Mango Street
Social media's 'growth hacks' are just modern-day creativity junk food: addictive, flavourful distractions that leave your true art malnourished.