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One writer described AI as a “mediocrity machine” — the culmination of reducing attention spans to short tweets, IG stories, and fast TikTok videos. Combating this means being more discerning about the content you consume and creating things that are generated by one’s self, and not filtered through, manipulated by, or entirely fabricated by AI.

One journalist’s look at the Summer of Heat AI slop captures this same loss of signal in a different medium.

See also The Enshittocene is what we get when capitalism is the driving force and AI Discipline.