"The Airbnb-ification of the arts." How social media algorithms are gently nudging the art world towards sterility, comfort, and predictability - eviltoast
The Airbnb-ification of the arts.
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How social media nudges the art world towards sterile predictability

This is an essay I wrote in 2022, inspired by Kyle Chaka’s 2016 viral essay, “Welcome to Airspace”. After seeing an excerpt from Kyle’s new book on the front of /c/Technology, I thought y’all might be interested in reading this piece of mine, which is less about the design of physical spaces, and more about The Algorithm™'s influence on creative practice in general.

This is a conversation I can have a million times, so I hope you enjoy.

  • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Fantastic read, shared at work and now following on mastodon. Also had this thought in regards to my own work:

    … I find it reflects a similar problem we’re having with our code base: “simple is not always easy”. This article points out that Generative AI does what is easy/cheap, when what we really need is simplicity (or simplified complexity)

    There’s probably another article to write about this, I would title it: “Generative AI won’t solve your Cynefin domain problem”

    • theluddite@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Couldn’t agree more! We shouldn’t outsource planning the world that we want to make to oversimplified heuristics, including “whatever is cheapest.”