Enshittification

Earlier this year, English National Opera were subject a small Twitter storm when somebody realized that the composer biographies on their website included a number of embarrassing errors: that Benjamin Britten—still alive—had written the music to Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Romeo and Juliet,” and that “the apple didn’t fall far from the tree” with... See more

Users wishing to know more about Frédéric Chopin, after a lost waltz was discovered the other day, might Google the composer. Yet, even with any number of media reports contextualizing this discovery, the top result—for me—is still an AI-generated portrait of the composer, leading to a music page hosted by London-based music school The Masters... See more