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Three creative tides to care about now - by Steph Yen

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How do we cherish and cultivate creativity and humanity when systems of labor, technology, and geopolitics are becoming more complex?

I keep on thinking about what is going on around me and in the world through the lens of creativity: the passion and the labor behind it, and the ways in which it is discovered, understood, and shared. Creativity as a human force, one that is being doubly supported and challenged, one that is arguably being commodified before our eyes. 2025 was, definitively, a year of AI slop (The New Yorker). The spread of technology into nearly every creative practice has been relentless. In music, AI artists populated Spotify (The Guardian), and money flowed into AI-powered music generation startups…

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