Tag: creator economy

• Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

  March 8, 2026

  Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/ more ›

• A Tool That Crushes Creativity – The Atlantic

  December 15, 2025

  AI slop is winning. https://share.google/SaDMztL1AxYc6fikO more ›

• You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda more ›

• How the creator economy destroyed the internet | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  A series about the devil’s bargain between the people who make things on the internet, the platforms that distribute them, and the way we consume content https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series more ›

• The economics of dark forest spaces

  November 26, 2025

  In the world of online platforms there’s a well-known pattern called the 90-9-1 rule. It says that in most online spaces, 90% of people silently consume; 9% interact (liking or… more ›

• A Tool That Crushes Creativity – The Atlantic

  October 23, 2025

  AI slop is winning. https://share.google/SaDMztL1AxYc6fikO more ›

• A.I. Is Coming for Culture

  September 1, 2025

  We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-culture?currentPage=all more ›

• What’s a smut peddler to do these days?

  August 10, 2025

  In the aftermath of Steam and itch pulling thousands of pages of adult content, their creators are speaking about their experiences making a living selling smut. more ›

• Azeem Azhar’s Exponential View: AI & the future of media with The Atlantic CEO, Nicholas Thompson

  July 25, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/EWx8Qk7 Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, led one of the first major content licensing deals with OpenAI in 2024. In this conversation, he joins Azeem to unpack how… more ›

• Digital Labor and the Inconspicuous Production of Artificial Intelligence

  June 1, 2025

  Digital platforms capitalize on users’ labor, often disguising essential contributions as casual activities or consumption, regardless of users’ recognition of their efforts. Data annotation, content creation, and engagement with advertising… more ›