@George-K said in Artisanal boutique grocery:
"I sourced it from that tap..." LOL.
Speaking of "artisanal," what is the point of this, other than to say, "Look at what a useless (though remarkable) skill I have"?
Hey, you asked. I'm answering.
Do you know what the average daily usage for a cell phone is in America? Over four hours. Every day. The vast majority of which, for most of us, is spent on social media apps, which are now proven to cause depression. Oh and did you also know that we have the fewest personal connections than at any other time in American history? Kids today, literally, treat their online lives as more important than what's going on with them in reality. And it's making a lot of them depressed.
Movie and TV plots are now thought up via algorithm—that's why "Hollywood is officially out of ideas." It's not that they're out of ideas. They've abandoned ideas. They don't need them anymore to create things people will spend money to watch. It's uninspired, sure, but good enough to sell.
In today's book market, you need to already be famous in order to get a book deal. Editors no longer do their jobs. Celebrity buys a seat at the table, not creativity. It's been that way since the internet and real-time sales tracking. As a result, new authors suck more than they used to because lo and behold, having a large Twitter or IG following shouldn't make you qualified to be a novelist.
Music's so bad that hits from decades ago are consistently kicking the shit out of anything younger artists are allowed to make today. It's not just old curmudgeons who say the old music was better. The entire music market says so, too. It keeps saying so.
And now there's Midjourney and Dall-E 2. Do you know the three main reasons why people buy art? (1) People are looking for a pretty picture in the right color for their living room. (2) There's no SEC to deal with. (3) They actually believe in the artist and want to support him or her.
AI is going to completely wipe out the market for (1) and is already making serious in-roads with (2). Music, movies, visual art—we're now competing against algorithms for human expression.
We're not expressing ourselves through physical things anymore and it's turning people crazy. And it's going to get a hell of a lot worse before it gets any better. How's the classical music market these days? Are symphonies dying, I wonder? Actually, I don't wonder. I don't wonder about that at all.
Good on this silly bastard. Yes, latté art is often times silly, pretentious, ephemeral and can barely be monetized. But at least he's not spending his time logging nonsense on Untappd, trying to pass his "review" of some bullshit local IPA as a worthwhile contribution to society while wondering who the fuck he is on a Sunday morning.
