Studio Sessions
52. The Homogenization Problem: Is Culture Losing Itself? PART 2
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Part two of two.
At the end of The Cable Guy, the satellite dish breaks and every TV goes dark, so people pick up books and go for walks. We start there, and with a worry about YouTube: if you pay people for views and hand them AI, the platform floods with slop. It's the cobra effect, named for a bounty on cobras that led people to breed more of them. Then one of us notices how much of what he…