Severin Matusek

Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.

—or for the putatively spontaneous expansion of support for campaigns that were coördinated in darkness.

Consistency and quality are everything.

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

“Everyone’s focused on capabilities – typography, grids, colour theory – but those are the first things AI can replicate,” he says. “Then we pivot to taste, but taste alone isn’t resilient either. You can train a model on what’s tasteful.”

Real differentiation, Forest argues, comes from “taste- making ”, the ability to not only recognise trends, but... See more