The antidote to AI is human touch
This recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations, which in the course of the past decade have taken over our digital platforms. Today’s automated social-media feeds deliver increasingly indistinguishable content now sometimes generated by artificial intelligence; i
... See moreKyle Chayka • Unnamed Document
This problem is almost impossible to fix in a culture that relies heavily on algorithms. The algorithm is, by definition, a repeating pattern that always looks backward. It does something in the future based on what worked in the past.
So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more
So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more
Ted Gioia • How to Know if You're Living in a Doom Loop
Matthew Jay added
This is another articulation of the problem I’ve found with music streaming following the demise of Rdio. Am I just being fed back more of the same, and how can I continue to find new things? I’m not sure an algorithm is the answer.
We need leaders in all aspects of our lives, and human curators should be the arbiters of taste. You may already be sick of trending templates, memes, specific types of click-baity content, soulless imagery, vapid videos, engagement farming, annoying trending songs.9 It’s not going to stop. In fact, it’s going to get much worse. The problem is that... See more
The Internet needs curators.
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If taste indeed must be deeply felt, requires time to engage with, and benefits from the surprise that comes from the unfamiliar, then it seems that technology could not possibly replicate it, because algorithmic feeds run counter to these fundamental qualities. When recommendation algorithms are based only on data about what you and other platform
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
I’m glad that I’m not the only one who misses old school human curation. For me, it’s more about wanting a connection moreso than valuing the actual thing being shared. I think this trend is accelerating. With generative AI and the ever-present algorithm that has sucked itself into every facet of our life, a part of the response to it will result i... See more
Simon de la Rouviere • The Human Medium is the Human Message
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... See moreIn my conversations with curators, I found a tone of caring and caretaking that is missing entirely from massive digital platforms, which treat all culture like content to be funnelled indiscriminately at high volume and which encourages consumers to stay constantly on the surface…
We turn to art to seek connection, yet algorithmic feeds give us pur
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
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