How Algorithms Make Everything the Same - Substack Live on 9th May
Join us for a Substack Live with author of Filterworld Kyle Chayka, founder of Metalabel Yancey Strickler and Orwell-prize winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr.
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?
Join us for a Citizens Reunited Live where we will discuss 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 will also talk about how to rebuild a creative commons - where creative people cooperate instead of being forced to compete.
Mark the date! Friday May 9th at 10am PST/ 1pm EST / 6pm BST
How to watch it? The event will be live-streamed here on Substack. Click on the link below.
We have a great lineup…
An American journalist and cultural critic. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker where he writes the Infinite Scroll column on digital culture. His latest book Filterword is 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.
We can’t wait to see you at the live event!
Team Citizens
This was an incredible and beautiful and hopeful conversation. Never thought of cousin marriage like ever and how it relates to us in history. To paraphrase Carole’s point, I really needed this AI palate cleanser so thank you all.
Sorry I missed the live event 😕 Is there a recording I could watch?