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AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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This article sucks. It's wild speculation about the future of culture "proven" by a paper where they tried repeatedly using a text-to-image model to generate an image then an image-description model to generate a description then feeding that into the text-to-image model.
I agree. I hate AI slop as much as the next person but you get the same phenomena if you save a jpeg over and over. Lossy algos gonna loss and the same can be said of converging on training data.
The more interesting takeaway are some of the other comments in this thread: cultural stagnation/death in America was a fixture long before AI slop.
did you watch that recent unlearning economics vid about AI? goes pretty in depth to this phenomenon
Is that the guy who explicitly said he’s not a leftist?
oh really? that kinda sucks. i havent agreed with everything ive heard on there but i thought he was further left than that. how has he described himself?