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For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it.

✘ Populists vs. Tech Titans: The Battle Over AI and the Future of Music

But the public interest is not what many mainstream media outlets are focused on. They are focused on not looking biased; they are focused on taking things down the supposed middle; they are focused on performative fairness to Trump and to MAGA — even while this president and his allies are trying to destroy what journalists do.

Legacy media's destructive addiction to describing Trump's 'winning'

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

Mills Baker, Seth Godin, Robin Sloan, Jasmine Sun, David Perell, Joan Westenberg, Venkatesh Rao, Anu... • Whoa: Conversations on AI & Creativity

INDEFENSIBLE: If a book-length compilation of errors and dishonest coverage — printed in the Columbia Journalism Review, and written by a reporter with the credentials of Jeff Gerth — doesn’t get picked up by MSM at all, it’s proof they will never reform. https://t.co/ZBDchee5nm

Matt Taibbi x.com

The Last Contract

Alexander Sorondo metropolitanreview.org

That’s part of Wolf’s M.O.—protect the source.” “He’s making people forget there ever was a Julian.” “At least Julian still blows him out of the water as a coder. Wolf’s hackers are all hired guns. He couldn’t even hack an Xbox by himself.” “But Wiki was dirty—people died because of Wiki. Wolf is still reasonably pure. In fact, that’s his whole

Jonathan Franzen • Purity: A Novel

Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/author/lisajborstgmail-com/ • Large Language Muddle

The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’

Jeremy Gordon theguardian.com

“Taste is reinforced by what gets broadcast, and it’s reinforced by who receives those stupid awards on those horrible award shows that keep coming up over and over and over again.”2