“AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work.”
“The result will be a world divided into writes and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write. Some of us like it. But the middle ground between those who are good at writing and those who can’t write at all will disappear. Instead of good writers, ok writers, and people who can’t write, there will just be good writers and people who can’t write.”
“Any phrase, repeated too many times, becomes a parody of itself: it no longer produces the same meaning. Once it has become a cliché, the image causes a glitch in both the circuit of consumption (nobody wants to consume these images anymore, at least not in the same way) and the circuit of production, which, once its products are no longer consumed, loses its profits through the absorption of surplus value.”
“The new hegemony is one that subverts traditional ideals of ‘taste’. In fact, those art forms which might traditionally be associated with that word are not the ruling forms on streaming platforms. The cultural hegemony created by Spotify is one driven by capital accumulation above all else. So, whilst the means of cultural creation might be more easily accessible than before, the rules by which musical creation is financially viable are still controlled by those with greater assets.”
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