Everything Looks The Same

exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness

by sari and · updated 3mo ago

One philosophical objection I have to Silicon Valley is that people are very derivative. They tend to rely too much on what other people do. When everyone relies on what everyone else does, you end up getting a deeply mimetic-culture where no one thinks for themselves.
phoebe added 1y ago
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
Alara added 8mo ago
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