Another connection I made about Adorno's theory to modern day culture is his comparison of "deep, complex ideas or... simple and surface-level" art to the difference between AI generated content and human-made art. One is only meant to be impressive on a technical level- no time dedicated to learning and refining certain skills is spent on it...
... Thus the creative process that defines art is removed from AI. The alternative's product is not always "challenging or thought provoking," but at least it has the capacity to be so.
