Infinite Scroll
Kyle Chayka on the people and platforms that are shaping digital culture.
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The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
Resisting Trump 2.0 with Brain-Rot Memes
We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is already happening.
Donald Trump’s A.I. Propaganda
Artificially generated videos of Gaza as a beach resort and of migrant detention as A.S.M.R. are creating a digital mirror world of the future as Trump imagines it.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.
The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction
The first time around, the President’s bad deeds galvanized people on social media. This time, they’re looking to “flush out their brains.”
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.
What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
The author of “Jurassic Park” understood that technologies often wriggle out of the grasp of their creators.
Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?
Lawmakers attempting to regulate children’s access to social media must decide whether bans or warning labels are the optimal route for keeping kids safe.
What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
In 2016, I went viral for telling people to quit social media. In 2024, I ignored my own advice.
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A Lesson in Creativity and Capitalism from Two Zany YouTubers
Some of the optimism of the early Internet seems to live on in the whimsical videos of James Hobson and Colin Furze.