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Creativity after AI
Subcultures flourish in places where a smaller number of people see you every day, but they see you more consistently - letting our creative forms of self-expression more successfully burrow into interesting local possibilities. Another example that comes to mind is this David Perell’s series of observations about “everything looking the same now”; in this case, company logos all moving to a narrow band of sans serif fonts. There are many possible explanations here, like homogenous design tools, but the Occam’s Razor answer is simply that these brands have global audiences now, who are now vetting these logos for “deficiencies” from many different cultural vantage points.
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