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AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
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tbh the LLMs have accelerated a trend that was already well underway, cultural stagnation set in a while ago.
It feels like a lot of people are stuck around 2004-2006. I think like you said the stagnation had long been underway, but that might be when it died officially.
Honestly I'd go so far as to say that society has been living in the hollowed out corpse of the 80s. I don't think the west ever fully culturally recovered from the mass privatization and deregulation boom. It all became a race to strip everything that was already there down for parts and sell it back over and over and over until there's nothing left.
TikTok was the first bit of new culture injected into our dying system in over a decade, but they quickly put a stop to that.
Some good movies came out last year. No Other Choice, Sinners, One Battle After Another. I don't think the west has fallen billions must die
Not nearly enough gray-brown military shooters that serve as thinly veiled propaganda for the war on terror
Actually, I take that back, there are more than enough. There were more than enough after they made the first one
I miss when shooter games were about killing Nazis. Or when you were explicitly playing a Soviet soldier and it was... a good portrayal by Western standards. (And even bad portrayals of the Red Army's role in the Great Patriotic War still meant you got to kill Nazis.) Hell, the original Wolfenstein was better than 00s war-on-terror muck.
Idk if the 2000s focus is stagnation though. Its just the nostalgia cycle.
The current cultural trendsetters grew up then, same as it was the 90s previously
have you seen the vid about AI from the yt channel unlearning economics? he did a pretty good deep dive into how AI is just the next step and hasnt even really accelerated it all that much