When Platforms Replace the Artist // AIDRAN

The phrase "business strategy" in the Bluesky post ^[10] is doing more work than it appears. Calling the AI-scouts-then-generates pipeline a strategy names something the tech industry has been reluctant to say plainly: this is not an accident of tooling adoption, it is a deliberate optimization. When a creator uses AI to identify trending content and then uses AI to produce content matching those trends, they are not making artistic choices — they are running an arbitrage operation against the recommendation algorithm. The artist in that workflow is not the…

The Feedback Loop That Replaced the Artist

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