Big Picture Ideas:

● Tech & Internet Culture - How has tech changed our perception of the world.
○ How has tech redefined our cultural landscape?
■ This is most interesting to me as it encompasses a lot of articles
that I found really interesting and ties everything together.
News Articles:
● Is copyright ‘fundamentally incompatible with the internet’? - Technical.ly
○ In “Is copyright ‘fundamentally incompatible with the internet’?”, Christopher Wink
goes over the negative effects of copyright law. Over the past century, copyright
laws have evolved to supposedly further protect the creator’s interests in an
increasingly digital world. However, in reality, the creator ends up with the shorter
end of the bargain with middle-men taking most of the cut. The middle-men in
question are large corporations controlling large swaths of the digital landscape
such as TikTok, Spotify, and Instagram. These companies pay very little money
to creators while taking the gargantuan profit from the numerous “creators”. In
the end the article concludes that “the relationship between the artist and the fan
is crucial but copyright is a barrier”, and leaves a solution up to innovators and
entrepreneurs

Wink, Christopher. “Is Copyright 'Fundamentally Incompatible with the Internet'?”

Technical.ly, Technically Media, 9 Sept. 2022,

https://technical.ly/civic-news/copyright-fundamentally-incompatible-with-internet-
glyn-moody/.

● Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It

○ In “Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It”, the idea of
stealing from or replacing an artist is expanded upon. With modern-day
technology, A.I can be instructed to mimic the art-style of an artist. This poses
many challenges, as should the generated art be considered stealing. Should
there be protections in copyright law for human artists? “When they're feeding
work from living, working artists who are, you know, struggling as it is”, how are
artists protected.The main problem with AI art is it can’t generate something with
a style that hasn’t been done before. With AI art, the market is saturated with so
much art that human art becomes less valuable. This will end the careers of
many artists, killing what art is truly about.

Knight, Will. “Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It.” Wired,

Conde Nast, 19 Aug. 2022, https://www.wired.com/story/artists-rage-against-

machines-that-mimic-their-work/.

● The Age of Instagram Face

Tolentino, Jia. “The Age of Instagram Face.” The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019,
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/decade-in-review/the-age-of-instagram-face.
○ In “The Age of Instagram Face”, Jia talks about how the emergence of an
idealistic face for women that’s perpetuated by social media. The emergence of
this standard comes from the reflexive need to tune images posted on social
media. This is evident due to the existence of many apps such as facetune. Due
to these apps and social media platforms, the need to change one’s body to fit
ideal standards is enforced for a wide majority of women. With this, the definition
of beauty changes, becoming something artificial, treated as a commodity. This
change in perception is a tragic journey for people who are drawn into this,
making their outlook on life more superficial.The idea that self-worth is dependent
on how close you look to a fake standard drains the meaning out of true beauty.
Technology has made us lose the meaning of beauty and set us on a
meaningless path for superficial validation.