[m000]

Culture has been rapidly regressing to a mean long before AI.

See e.g. modern cars. Until the mid 00s, you could tell different brands apart from far away. And you could perhaps also tell a few things about the owner from the color.

Or movies. The past 20+ years of high-budget film-making has been mostly rehashing franchises and remaking what has already been made.

AI is perhaps accelerating the trend and eliminating many opportunities to witness something original (e.g. a quirky amateur wedding video). But the trend had already begun.

[BigTTYGothGF]

> you could tell different brands apart from far away

This is just the tyranny of air resistance and fuel economy.

[m000]

I think that's only the excuse the car makers use for being lazy and not taking design risks.

Because homogeneity also extends to the interiors (which are not affected by regulations). And of course the offered colors, where we have almost full-circled back to "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black".