The author of Filterworld discusses art and culture in the age of Instagram and TikTok.

Seven years later, Kyle’s argument is that AirSpace has turned into what he now calls Filterworld, a phrase he uses to describe how algorithmic recommendations have become one of the most dominating forces in culture, and as a result, have pushed society to converge on a kind of soulless sameness in its tastes.

  • Robert Rothenberg@floss.social
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    9 months ago

    @souperk @pelespirit

    One of the problems with adopting a new technology is that we become dependent on it.

    So even when we start to recognise how harmful it is, there is a lot of social inertia that keeps it running.

    Look at fossil fuels: it’s been widely known that it contributes to global warming for *decades* and yet there is so much resistance to using alternative energy sources and phasing them out.

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