Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
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As the rest of the internet gets overtaken by bots and AI-generated content and oligarch-owners livestreaming megalomaniacal presidential candidates, the self-contained publications controlled entirely by professional humans win out.
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
As artist and AI collaborator Refik Anadol says, “This is pure collaboration , imagination with a machine.”
The MIT Press Reader • The Prompt Engineer Is the Artist of Our Age
The real breakthroughs that enabled the revival of the 1,000 True Fans model are better understood as cultural. The rise in both online news paywalls and subscription video-streaming services trained users to be more comfortable paying à la carte for content. When you already shell out regular subscription fees for newyorker.com, Netflix, Peacock,... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
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
Sean Bonner
seanbonner.com
The canonical example of the 2010s was probably the trend-forecasting agency K-HOLE, which was formed by four art-school friends who, while grifting fashion-industry jobs in New York, became ‘interested in the total collapse that comes with being the thing itself’. As it turned out, they were exceptionally good at ‘the thing itself’ – publishing... See more
Gary Zhexi Zhang • The Artist of the Future
What’s notable is the rhetoric about Sora introducing a Cambrian explosion of human creativity. Liberated from the bottlenecks of charisma, skill and craft, real creativity – i.e ideas – can now flourish and be channeled via text prompt.