Kyle Chayka
@chaykak.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
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Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reading ‘Filterworld’ by @chaykak.bsky.social and loving. Highly recommend - the concepts in it affect all of us now, the chapter on Netflix will peel your eyelids back. amzn.eu/d/6ZnHPsB
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This was the year that AI-generated images and videos became, sometimes, indistinguishable from real ones. But as @chaykak.bsky.social writes, “if 2025 marked the mainstreaming of slop, it also ushered in an accompanying slop backlash.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The Year in Slop
This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This was the year that AI-generated images and videos became, sometimes, indistinguishable from real ones. But as @chaykak.bsky.social writes, “if 2025 marked the mainstreaming of slop, it also ushered in an accompanying slop backlash.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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check it out
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
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For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
check it out
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...
For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.
www.newyorker.com/news/press-r...
THE YEAR IN SLOP, 12 beautiful months of 2025 AI garbage, from the viral to the violent, the random to the racist www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
The Year in Slop
This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our better judgment.
www.newyorker.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
THE YEAR IN SLOP, 12 beautiful months of 2025 AI garbage, from the viral to the violent, the random to the racist www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
I wrote a @newyorker.com column on 2025 as the year of video podcasts and multimedia pundit personality cults, faces, voices, outfits, and all www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Why Video Podcasts Multiplied Beyond the Man Cave
Whether you’re a pundit, a politician, or an A-list comedian, the best media strategy these days is a D.I.Y. stage set and a microphone.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I wrote a @newyorker.com column on 2025 as the year of video podcasts and multimedia pundit personality cults, faces, voices, outfits, and all www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by David Ostow. #NewYorkerCartoons
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
www.newyorker.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Maybe it's just me, but this was a headwreck of a read. Seemingly there's now a whole new "craft" emerging - producers who help aspiring musicians to "humanize" their AI generated songs.
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“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
“ur posts have been so good today” thanks im having a psychotic event
very very good @kevinlozano.bsky.social review www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
The Man Who Helped Make the American Literary Canon
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set about championing writers like Kerouac and Faulkner as uniquely American.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
very very good @kevinlozano.bsky.social review www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
WNYC from this morning!
ICYMI, @chaykak.bsky.social explains how AI music snuck onto our playlists:
www.wnyc.org/story/how-ai...
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How AI Songs Got on Your Spotify Playlist | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka discusses how songs generated using artificial intelligence are dominating top music charts and streaming services like Spotify
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
WNYC from this morning!
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From mini projector to an anti-technology app subscription, @chaykak.bsky.social breaks down the newest, strangest gadgets and apps to get your tech-savvy loved ones this holiday season. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aLVJfw
A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps
Our columnist on digital culture suggests technology—or anti-technology technology—to give this holiday season.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From mini projector to an anti-technology app subscription, @chaykak.bsky.social breaks down the newest, strangest gadgets and apps to get your tech-savvy loved ones this holiday season. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aLVJfw
I'm on the Brian Lehrer Show later! Discussing this AI music piece www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
Today:
- @elizabethkim.bsky.social & @brigidbergin.bsky.social on NYC politics;
- @yinka.bsky.social previews the G20 in South Africa;
- US strikes on Venezuelan vessels;
- @chaykak.bsky.social on how AI music snuck onto our playlists
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
- @elizabethkim.bsky.social & @brigidbergin.bsky.social on NYC politics;
- @yinka.bsky.social previews the G20 in South Africa;
- US strikes on Venezuelan vessels;
- @chaykak.bsky.social on how AI music snuck onto our playlists
Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @WNYC.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm on the Brian Lehrer Show later! Discussing this AI music piece www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
the patron saint of my @newyorker.com gadget / tech gift guide is the $18 Swype disposable touchscreen vape with weather and social notifications, which makes for a great stocking stuffer www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
the patron saint of my @newyorker.com gadget / tech gift guide is the $18 Swype disposable touchscreen vape with weather and social notifications, which makes for a great stocking stuffer www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
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People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke
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Cloudflare's outage seems... bad? X, ChatGPT, multiple other sites down
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Cloudflare's outage seems... bad? X, ChatGPT, multiple other sites down
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''As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet...''
by @chaykak.bsky.social
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by @chaykak.bsky.social
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It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
''As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet...''
by @chaykak.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
by @chaykak.bsky.social
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I do not dream of weeknight meals
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I do not dream of weeknight meals
here's the thing, guys — you have to read the whole article, all of the words. i know it's hard
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
here's the thing, guys — you have to read the whole article, all of the words. i know it's hard
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I.
Aspiring musicians are churning out tracks using generative artificial intelligence. Some are topping the charts.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
for my @newyorker.com column I profiled Nick Arter, a consultant turned musician who began producing AI songs under the name Nick Hustles a year ago and has hit millions of streams and gone pro. Where is the line of human creativity in the post-AI music industry? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
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Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
Senior Writer, Culture
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanity’s biggest challenges, from climate change t...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Couldn't be more excited to share @chaykak.bsky.social's next book, which asks what role our most piercing, powerful encounters with culture and beauty play in making us who we are, explores how we seek more of them, and looks at what we lose in a world where those experiences are increasingly rare
"do not use our superhuman intelligence machine to do anything a professional human should be doing"
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"do not use our superhuman intelligence machine to do anything a professional human should be doing"
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"The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence."
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
my new @newyorker.com column on the allure of low follower counts and niche influencers on social media, in a time of AI and bot traffic www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now
As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"The large numbers don’t quite mean what they used to as signals of relevance or clout, as social media has become more aged, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence."
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically
This value shift is important for restoring cultural progress and it looks like it's happening organically