So much of of the existing music, film and TV culture — using 20th century technology — is cookie cutter, lifeless and uninspiring.

The democratization of the AI tools means even more people can pump out content, so context will matter more than ever in order to give meaning to the work.

The playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar described our “click-bait consciousness,” trained to interact with anything in the feed designed to be triggering. “The worship of algorithms is mutilating creative industries,” the television writer Cord Jefferson complained. “Culture is no longer made. It is simply curated from existing culture, refined, an

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