[dagorenouf]

Culture often grows with technological advancement. For example, electronics gave us rap music (from samplers), techno, 3D animation, video games. All of those brought in a lot of fresh and new ideas to the table for a couple decades until it stagnated. I’m hopeful that the coming A.I revolution will lead to the next stage of culture.

[prohobo]

I feel A.I. will definitely usher in a new culture. One example of the shift will be on Instagram (and any other influencer-led social media platform):

How will human influencers compete with perfectly crafted A.I. influencers? Imagine a Belle Delphine for any niche audience. It'll be impossible to retain any attention as a limited human being, so they will mostly disappear from social media, and social media itself will transform. Maybe the response will be to take it offline, and go influence in the real world?

Maybe people will emotionally revolt against A.I. and start creating curated "A.I. free zones" filled with anything that wouldn't be likely to be generated by an A.I., and the new hipsters will look down on A.I. generated content or whatever is derivative of that content.

On the flip side, many people are likely to embrace A.I. content and start creating insane things that wouldn't be possible before. People will wear A.I. generated fashion accessories, and create media that can only be traversed and experienced through an A.I. companion.

Ultimately, it will change our psychology, and the way we think about the world and ourselves.

[flappyeagle]

Nerds are likely to overestimate regular people’s desire to have extremely custom things, or the uniqueness of people’s taste overall.

We are memetic creatures, and most people simply enjoy the same things.

AI might help us find new things with mass appeal but niche audiences will continue to not matter so much in comparison, culturally and economically.

[andy81]

I'm surprised at this take, since so far AI has mainly reduced the cost of creating content similar to what already exists.

[throwaway4aday]

I'm confused by this comment, some things made with AI tools are very similar to what we were seeing before but that's either done intentionally because someone really wanted to make something in an existing style or it's done by amateurs who haven't got the hang of crafting and combining prompts yet so they just use the copy/paste "in the style of" "by X" prompts.

Just try browsing the most popular images from Midjourney and you'll see a lot of stuff that stands out, and these are the popular images that most people find acceptable. The iceberg goes much, much deeper when you dig into the galleries of individual creators.

https://www.midjourney.com/showcase/top/

https://www.deviantart.com/tag/midjourney?cursor=MTQwYWI2MjA...

https://www.instagram.com/midjourney.gallery/?hl=en

[elcritch]

That could be how culture breaks out of the corporate monocultures where Disney+, ClearChannel, etc own everything. See the AI’s could generate new “Beatles” songs which sound authentic but aren’t. This could lead to an era of high grade “fan fiction “ essentially.

However I’d guess the corporations would push really hard to own anything that “sounds like” the Beatles to prevent that.

[Affric]

One comment 3 minutes ago and it starts the same way as mine but I am not so sure. I think underlying demographic trends (which at the moment almost seem like immutable laws) will change our culture irreversibly. What is it going to be like when global human population is below replacement rate?

I cannot imagine the psychology of such a society.

[dagorenouf]

Seems like this sets the « flavor » of culture but not the type. For example todays music is more depressing than 20 years ago because the overall psychology changed, but the music is fundamentally still the same. So it’s a mix of both mood and tech advancement?