FIELD NOTES FROM THE FEED / PAGE 2
Field notes from an internet becoming easier to fill and harder to trust. AI slop, algorithm bait, fake authority, corporate goo, and the occasional thing still worth paying attention to.
Hasan Piker doesn't hold office, write laws or command an institution. So why does American politics spend so much energy fighting about him? Because personalities make better content than governing.
They are furious about Gaza, Israel, Trump, Democrats, Republicans, the economy, pronouns, eggs, flags, schools, billionaires, socialism, capitalism, whatever somebody said on a podcast and whatever somebody else said about what somebody said on the podcast.
Boomers don't actually use generative AI more than younger generations. So why have AI Jesus, impossible crafts and synthetic Facebook imagery become so associated with them? The answer says less about age than it does about what happens when technology finally stops making you feel stupid.
AI can imitate the surface of children’s entertainment almost instantly. What it cannot manufacture so easily is the human point of view that gives a story somewhere to come from.