Comment on The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ineffable@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why every x looks the same

  City

  Car

  Advertisement

  Interface

  etc.

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• Maestro@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's called fashion. Give it a decade, something else will become fashion.

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was called a fad.

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    • Maestro@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That's just fashion you don't like 😄

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• MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Haha communism no food

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• DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is part of the reason I love driving a (BMW) Mini. It’s not the best car in the world, but it looks different to all the other cars. And drives like a go kart.

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• inspxtr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of this article www.alexmurrell.co.uk/…/the-age-of-average where the author pulls in different examples of designs and aesthetics converging to some “average”.

  I’m feeling conflicted with these trends, on one hand it seems like things are becoming more accessible, while on another, feels like a loss.

  This especially may be relevant with generative AI - at least for the very few generative arts I look at, at some point they start to feel the same, impersonal.

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  • spamfajitas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can’t access the research article “craic in a box: commodifying and exporting the irish pub” anymore, but there’s a decent enough Vice article that goes over it: vice.com/…/why-irish-pubs-became-the-biggest-food…

    Basically corporations packaged up and sold the theme and decorations that made Irish pubs feel authentic.

    I wonder if using AI/ML is just the natural evolution of that kinda thing.

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• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t that two more colours than Henry Ford gave you! Sheesh! Ungrateful much!

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the most obvious signs of the arrival of Idiocracy times was the 21st Century truck designs that all have a square, flat front end like a massive brick wall. As if no engineer who worked on the design of those has ever heard of wind resistance and fuel efficiency.

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