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>>GavCo+(OP)
Censoring old children's books. Yikes. This is frightening in more ways than one.

Besides the obvious censorship, and rewriting the past being a bad thing. I can't wait to see what they do to "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984". It'll be ironic and sad if they burn the old unedited Roald Dahl books.

But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude ?

This is a huge problem, when every year we graduate more and more people wanting to be writers, artists, etc. This will only get worse with books now being written by ChatGPT and art by Dall-E/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion.

Have we reached "peak multimedia" content ?

>>stucki+a2
> But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude

Where is the next Dahl? Why is there no modern Beatrix Potter? Kids still love those stories and style of writing, which is less trite than most of the modern children's books.

It does feel like stagnation, with lots of content being churned out but none of it with great staying power. Instead the old stuff is regurgitated endlessly with less and less of it's original soul.

>>jemmyw+Id
Maybe we have a culture have decided that we no longer value creativity in writers, artists, etc. We praise the chatgpt's et al of the world and laud their creators and evangelists, but it's pretty rare I see much about advocating for better salaries and opportunities that allow new Dahl's to exist. They're too busy being told as kids that they need to learn python.

..."oh but the market"

>>Aviceb+3l
Thats the real wow factor of chatGPT isn't it? We're able to automate & serialize creativity because our culture has become too serious to do it ourselves anymore.

A highly creative culture would have very limited if any desire for it.