Dan Supreme's Era

A darkly satirical short essay of mine, which Spotify seem to have taken as inspiration as they are now offering exactly the AI remix service that I satirised as arriving in 2035. "In this year 2035, 176 million short films have been made, 292 million AI-written books, 363 million AI music songs on Soundcloud and Youtube and they all enter the “long tail” where only a handful of people review them or judge them or even watch them because the entire internet is filled-up with all this AI generated culture that, sadly, no one has time to watch, to recommend or to share. So ironically, just like those regressive trad artists who have no audience, so too, AI artists have found that they have almost zero audience as well. But since everyone must remain optimistic and happy about the great tech liberation, and since memory of the time before is fading fast, the 1 billion people who have made this new AI culture over the last decade have found a solution to this “no audience” problem. The billion new artists worldwide, now pay for click farms and chatbot AI audiences to click on their AI books, and to “like” and “share” their AI films and their AI music. They also pay for deep fake AI influencers to like and share their AI art. So, art that was made by AI, is then seen by nobody but AI, and is then reviewed, liked and shared by nobody but AI." Link to full essay below.