The notion of the “meme” was introduced by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in the late 1970s as a way to describe what he called a “cultural gene.” Memes are units of culture and behaviour, which survive and spread via imitation and adaptation.
Paul Delaroche saw a camera in 1839 and said "painting is dead." Painting went on to invent impressionism and cubism. Synthesizers were supposed to end music. Music just got weirder. Technology doesn't end fields. It kills the boring version, forcing the interesting one to emerge
We trained AI on all of human knowledge so it could write like us. Now we're training AI on AI output so it can tell us apart. At some point someone should ask who's testing whom.