…Artists have always stolen from other artists. I have done so. In the creative world it’s one facet of what we call ‘inspiration’.

Remixing is what culture does.

The key differences in the era of degenerative LLMs are scale and speed. It’s an accelerant.

It’s a heightening of the mismatch between what capitalism wants and the grain of the internet.

Capitalism profits from controlled scarcity. The internet wants everything connected: engineered abundance

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