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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by paganel on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:00AM (#14254071)
> The problem is that you basically have to examine every single item, and then personally decide if it qualifies as art or not.

This reminded me of Walter Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", which was written ~80 years ago. Not sure there's any "solution" to what you or the OP are describing.

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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by pessimizer on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:39AM (#14255508)
Turns out you can't mass produce individualism.
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Re:Etsy has ousted its CEO and is laying off 8 percent of it... by Balgair on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:58PM (#14257654)
I mean, you can mass produce the appearance of individualism with a large enough data set and a well constrained ecosystem. Look at all the IoT-toaster bots on FB and Twitter scamming real people out of money. To some, the appearance is as good as the real thing.
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