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Studio Ghibli AI Memes Expose Deeper Artistic Crisis March 28, 2025
For much of this week, X has been filled with eerily familiar yet undeniably off-putting images that represent a new frontier in AI’s consumption of human art. Users have discovered that ChatGPT’s latest update allows them to transform any photograph...
Sucks to Sussex March 19, 2025
To call it the televisual event of the year would be — let’s be honest — an understatement. With Love, Meghan, the much-awaited “lifestyle” Netflix show hosted by the Duchess of Sussex, has prompted more scathing reviews, memes, think pieces and What...
The Sensitive Young Meme March 12, 2025
One of the most beautiful paintings in the Caspar David Friedrich show The Soul of Nature, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 11, shows a roiling ocean crashing against a rocky coast by moonlight. The tiny figure of a monk stares o...
The Artificial Culture March 06, 2025
I'll start with a simple premise. If we now have direct evidence that the federal government was funneling millions of dollars into supposedly free market press organs (such as Politico, which has received federal subscription payments from agencies ...
Wifejak, Icon of the Normal December 11, 2024
Social-media sites are dark places. Bigotry in every direction, footage of random ultra-violence, porn and OnlyFans content—all this and more is part of the routine user experience on these platforms, especially X, the app formerly known as Twitter. ...
The Meme-ification of Anthony Bourdain June 27, 2024
After Anthony Bourdain took his own life in June 2018, the internet was flooded with content memorializing him: obituaries, remembrances, bereft tweets by celebrities and regular citizens alike. But one post in particular foretold the chef’s afterlif...
Extremely Online and Incredibly Tedious June 13, 2024
There’s a meme I think about often, a dumb joke that originated in a New Yorker cartoon from the nineties and exploded from there. In the original image, a dog sits in front of a desktop computer, a browser window open on his screen. He’s turned his ...
The Ghost in the AI Machine June 06, 2024
In an article last year titled “The False Promise of ChatGPT,” which has given rise to recent memes on social media, the famed linguist Noam Chomsky and his two co-authors start by declaring that “OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Sydne...
