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Herbert Marcuse
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- 1Playing with Frankfurt School dinosaurs in the AI age●Because I was recently asked which kind of Frankfurt School Dinosaur I was, to which I answered: "A Marcusesaurus", here
A joke circulating online asks people which kind of Frankfurt School dinosaur they would be, with one participant answering 'a Marcusesaurus' in tribute to the German-American philosopher Herbert Marcuse. The quip is being used to frame Marcuse's critical theory as relevant to 'AIshittification', the degradation of online life by low-quality artificial intelligence content.