

I don’t even think necessarily that they’ve lost their mind. We built a machine that is incapable of thought or consciousness, yes, but is fine tuned to regurgitate an approximation of it. We built a sentience-mirror, and are somehow surprised that people think the reflection is its own person.
Honestly the era of internet music (privately) is over. Don’t get me wrong; there are anonymizing wrappers for YouTube music, and while you’re not going to find small bands you can still easily pirate big acts. But if you want to find new-new music, it’s time to grab tickets to some local shows again.