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Do algorithms make culture boring?

Do algorithms make culture boring?

Update: 2025-01-30
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Are algorithms actually making culture boring? It’s easy to point to the Spotifys and Instagrams the world and blame them for what we perceive to be stagnant cultural production, flattened tastes, and generally bad vibes. But, in a recent piece for the Atlantic titled “The Technology That Actually Runs Our World,” journalist T.M. Brown argues that the a…

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Do algorithms make culture boring?

Do algorithms make culture boring?

Emilie Friedlander and Andrea Domanick