Mimetic Desire Meets the Opus 5.5 Video Craze: Everyone Copies the Same Demo
AlchainHust · x · 2026-10-03
Blogger Alchain applies Girard's theory of mimetic desire to the Opus 5.5 video-generation craze: people rush to replicate the same AI video not because they actually need to make videos, but to prove they've kept up with the next production paradigm. Everyone wants to appear ahead, and everyone ends up in the same line — "kind of boring," he concludes.
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