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The stagnation has been happening, AI is just its latest iteration/scapegoat.
"Hey, we need a large photo to encapsulate an article about how AI leads to cultural stagnation and death of creativity. Oh I know, how about a photo of some random Asian chick waiting in some sterile-looking elevator to invoke the Orient's proclivity towards rote memorization and inability to imagine life that is worth living?"
well they were talking about elevator music, and most people in the world are literally from Asia; is it really wrong to use that image?
They could just use the AI slop collage found in the article that's a lot more eye-catching and actually relevant to the article instead of some generic photo of some random Asian chick in a sterile elevator. It's like how every single article about Covid has to have a photo of some Asian person in a mask even when the article has nothing to do with Asia.
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.
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
It feels like a lot of people are stuck around 2004-2006
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
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