How Algorithms Make Everything the Same with Carole Cadwalladr, Kyle Chayka & Yancey Strickler
Big Tech, its algorithms and its rapacious business model are flattening our culture and fleecing creatives. How are streamers like Spotify and Netflix upending the cultural process, our art, films, and music… and how can we fight back?
We hosted a Citizens Reunited Live where we discussed how algorithms impoverish the artistic experience and homogenize culture. How AI is robbing creatives of their intellectual property, ideas and output, and how the business model of the streaming platforms is leaving independent artists struggling to make a living. But don’t fear, none of this is inevitable, we also talked about how to rebuild a creative commons – where creative people cooperate instead of being forced to compete.
We had a great lineup…
An American journalist and cultural critic. He is a staff writer for The New Yorkerwhere he writes the Infinite Scroll column on digital culture. His latest book Filterwordis about how digital platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Spotify have taken over our modes of cultural distribution in the past decade, and how the algorithms that drive these platforms are leading to a homogenization of culture.
A writer and entrepreneur focused on supporting artists and creative people. He co-founded Metalabel, an operating system for creative work that helps people cooperate rather than compete. He has also co-founded other creative platforms like Kickstarter, The Creative Independent, and The Dark Forest Collective. He is the author of books like This Could Be Our Future and The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
A Pulitzer-nominated journalist and co-founder of the Citizens, the journalism and campaigning non-profit. She previously was a writer for The Guardian and The Observer, and can now be found on her Substack, How To Survive The Broligarchy.
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