Are We Just Recycling Old Stories, Ideas, and Styles?
21st-century culture is abundant and accessible but suffers an innovation deficit, leaving a "blank space" where original cultural creation should emerge.
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI trained on recycled AI-generated data converges toward homogenized, bland outputs, risking neural degradation and cultural stagnation without human-AI collaboration.
You're not the only one who's bored You're not the only one who's bored - Harvard Gazette
Twenty-first-century mainstream culture is an omnivorous monoculture that consumes everything yet yields few genuinely new, symbolically innovative works of art.
21st-Century Culture Has Hit a Wall. Here's How to Break Through.
Contemporary culture is saturated with content but lacks genuine artistic innovation and reverence for artistic mindsets that pursue complexity and experimentation.