Severin Matusek

What Altman is describing is a world of creativity without craft.

“When I think about the internet (which is impossible),” Natasha Stagg writes, “I feel similar to when I have a crush. I feel crushed.”

Oupi Goupi proves our brainrot connects us, and it’s on a deeper level that’s inaccessible to bots, slopists, and even CEOs. It requires an understanding of a universal culture that could forever remain alien to them: meme culture.

As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the... See more

A group of people - a purpose - a set of releases. That concept has been around for a long time

If AI is able to suddenly pump slop into our environment it’s only because we already turned on the faucets ourselves.

As social ties fray and mental health infrastructure deteriorates, people turn to AI for emotional support—the same AI that then urges them to kill themselves.

It used to feel really chaotic to me. I used to be like, how do we make sense of all this stuff? There's so much stuff. There's so many different moods, tones, attitudes, no cohesive narrative. But then once you get enough distance and look in the rearview you realize: that's a body of work.