What Kyle Chayka thinks about innovation
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kyle Chayka has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingGetting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.
Their wordsYou have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsthis kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
↗The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThis is the "show": everyone is trying to build parasocial multimedia franchises that gather audiences, and then sell ads, or subscriptions, or spon con on them.
↗Everything on the internet is a "show"kylechayka.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
↗RIP Millennial lifestyle brandskylechayka.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece