Agreed, it's quite a crazy and fascinating article. Had me laughing cynically in a way that doesn't feel good. > no one is really sure what’s real, what’s fake

Agreed, it's quite a crazy and fascinating article. Had me laughing cynically in a way that doesn't feel good. > no one is really sure what’s real, what’s fake, whether they’re being scammed, or who or what made the songs that they’re listening to. This is close to the definition of technologically induced societal madness Jaron Lanier sketched in an article about a year ago. Pop will eat itself. We always knew that. Pop is the spirit of whimsical, ephemeral, self-devouring, involuted art. It's to be expected. But so much else has become like Pop; news media, food, medicine, clothing, even the cars we drive... At some point AI combined with appalling cyber-security and our over-reliance on tech will start to tear all of these things apart. This kinda started in the pandemic, even before AI. Is it really government advice to drink bleach? Or a terrorist plot? Philip K. Dick would not know how to write this stuff.