Thinking alongside Roland here, I continue to think an application of genre theory--with its emphasis on recycling tropes--to AI would be immensely useful. Someone with a better grasp of its mechanics want to coauthor "A Genre Approach to GenAI" with me?
BenjamÃn Schultz-Figueroa
Capitalist expansion has for centuries been based on rendering nature available as an exploitable resource. But only with the mass-scale digitization of the cultural archive did culture, too, become systematically exploitable as a resource. #GenAI is how platform capitalism seeks to extract it
