slop - by mathu - chai latte
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on taste, agency, and choosing in the age of ai
modified original image from are.na Building for the user has now turned into building for the feed. Startups now spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce media in the hopes of capturing a sliver of consumer mindshare. For you pages tug us eight videos deep into “Who TF did I marry” series, the latest rage bait on X now seeds our conversations, or we ask a model how to raise a newborn instead of calling our mom. We lose our capabilities in these small, almost invisible moments, when we stop making decisions, stop reaching out, and default to whatever’s right in front of us. We…
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