I can get half way to agreement with this abstract.

One concrete example of algorithms run amok is music. Autotune and gridding externalize human creativity and crush it. Yes.

But deciding that algorithms and the Western culture that begat them, as such, are the problem seems a tad bit peevish.

One wonders at the direction of any of this thinking. It seems incapable of any positive outcome. The desire for 'positive' outcomes, itself, seems likely to come under attack for emoploying the English language, the Roman alphabet, and daring to insinuate there is anything amiss with what my strange new overl(ord)s are dictating.