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The contradiction of ‘monoculture’: the word Americans now use to mourn Colbert’s finale and describe how AI is damaging creative output

Algorithms promised infinite variety. A new AI study finds they're producing "visual elevator music" instead, and that's only half the monoculture...

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Maria a. rodas

How ‘monoculture’ became a catchall for two opposing anxieties – that we no longer share enough, and that we all share too much

How ‘monoculture’ became a catchall for two opposing anxieties – that we no longer share enough, and that we all share too much

The term’s contradictory uses signal deeper worries about cultural fragmenting and algorithmic-induced flattening.

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Maria a. rodas