But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we’ll have like 10 genres to choose from and that’s it.

Usually when people think in genres instead of artists, genres get more granular, so we end up with hundreds of more new words that describe minute differences. Like, look at EDM, a genre that has never really cared about individual artists. They’ll consider a 5BPM difference to be a different genre.

Given all the different “microgenres” that are popping up now, usually by younger artists, I think that tracks with music today.

As someone who sees no problem with the image…

There is no way people would be as tolerant if this were about like, Argentina, despite the country haven fallen victim to similar politicians. Or even Japan, another rich but declining nation with dominant Conservatism. Or Italy even, which is like Japan in those aspects but mostly white.

Pixel phones cost several times what my phone costed.

I think there is an AI bubble, but the aftermath will be like the dot com bubble: the internet didn’t go away, but a bunch of businesses that were only ever valuable because they were on the internet did.

OpenAI won’t go away, but a bunch of companies whose products are pretty much wrappers for ChatGPT will.

They come for the things nobody would be caught dead defending (often even people who privately engage in it) first. Look at how during the thing with payment processors and porn games, some people were saying they didn’t mind if it were just the rape games being banned. Those are used as justification for speech restrictions to the public.

(I don’t even think KiwiFarms should be legal personally, Chris Chan’s story should be considered evidence enough that they’re a harassment forum)

4chan’s creativity died when the first Soyjak was posted.