asking an AI to curate a list of creative media for you ignores the millions and millions of people who ache for the opportunity to infodump on their favorite creative media in a particular style or genre to almost anyone who seems genuinely interested. the tech industry cannot seem to solve any problems except for those that absolutely do not need solving.
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it’s an absolute cliché to the point of being a catchphrase for various communities of people over the years, but the conceptual space contained by the phrase “sharing is caring” deserves more than a 
every time you hear it. sharing is caring. it’s an explicit component in the act of a person or group of people sharing something with another person our group of people; care is built-in. somebody cares enough to share this, whatever it is, with whomever they’re sharing it with.
they may care about the thing they’re sharing. they may care about the person they’re sharing it with. probably both, based on my experiences.
it is fundamentally an act of care to share.
and I think that this is part of the big disconnect and major source of friction between some ideologically-based communities, i.e. AI proponents and never-ai adherents: one group thinks they are sharing and thus exhibiting care while the other group interprets what is being shared as a strong signal that the person sharing doesn’t care about the same things as they do. I honestly believe that most people who are reaching to the current swarm of AI technologies being foisted on consumers and tech nerds in particular think they are doing so in order to share something with others. I believe they are trying to participate in activities they think others will gain value from, activities that others will care about, without understanding that by not putting forth the effort to actually do it they’re indicating that they don’t care about the thing in nearly the same way as people who put time and thought and energy into actually creating the thing themselves to share with others. it goes way deeper than “machine bad” or even “machine under central control bad” and points more towards groups of people who do not mean the same things when they use certain words. unless some form of translation is put in place that is bi-directional, communication on the topics using those words just isn’t going to be successful.
@djsundog I'm not sure translation will help, since as you suggest it often points to a difference in values: valuing results over process (for one). I've seen it on here with some people who have basically said, "Well, I can't beat 'em, so I may as well join them and get some stuff I want out of it."
Anyway, we get enough "the only thing that matters is results" from our capitalist overlords. I don't need it in my personal interaction with peers and friends and non-capitalist spaces. :(
anecdotally, but not incidentally, I feel like this is supported by the group of children adopting “that’s AI” as a pejorative phrase denoting something fake or false or crappy or wrong. children are not immune to propaganda but they’ve suffered far smaller doses than you or I, so there ability to see things clearly as they are is less likely to be obscured by some of the things we’ve internalized as “just how things work” by the time we’ve been around for a few decades or more. listen to the children.
and it’s easy to chalk those millions and millions of people who want to tell you about their favorite creative stuff to being on the spectrum or what have you but the thing about a spectrum is that it goes all the way from one end to the other and I am here to tell you, that super normie person in your life that you just do not even understand how they could be so typical absolutely has a topic that if you trip across it they’ll happily run down everything they know about street doo-wop groups in the southwestern united states in the 1950s and 1960s. everybody’s got something that’ll get ‘em going.