On art and efficiency at the dawn of generative AI It feels like a weird and perhaps frightening time to be an artist, or to have artistic aspirations. Not long ago, it was common to imagine that the next wave of jobs to be made obsolete by machines might be so-called menial and repetitive ones…
The other day, I was watching – for maybe the fiftieth time – this video by sigur rós for the song “Glósóli” It’s a stunning piece of filmmaking, for a gorgeous song, but if not for YouTube, how would one find such a thing as this? MTV doesn’t show videos anymore, and a band like…