In 1984, there is a bureau that produces vapid, cookie-cutter, mass-produced (computer generated I believe) "content" for the Proles -- the average Joe.

That includes songs, movies, books.

Now we have generative AI that can produce such derivative works. Also, look at Hollywood the past few years! Cookie cutter, 2-dimensional, paint by numbers plots and characters, cardboard villains, copy-paste plots (when there's a plot at all)...

Seen a blue "skybeam" lately in the climax of your movie? About 100 movies have used this in the past 8 years.

Hollywood hasn't produced anything original in about 20 or 25 years. Everything now is re-boots, reboots of reboots, prequels, and unasked-for sequels, especially for the destruction of all venerable movies (especially if the lead character is a white male). Nothing can rest in peace; even a successful popular movie (or trilogy) must be dug up, and its bones desecrated in the worst possible ways.

Even though AI isn't intelligent at all, it's basically computer generation of a derivative work (given a body of existing works) -- what difference is there, compared with what humans are producing now?

But all of this is strangely familiar to those who have read Nineteen Eighty-Four.

It's similar to the ever-constant drowning of noise at any given store, restaurant, etc.  Always constant music (typically loud).  There is never any silence.  It would be too jarring for most, I believe. Thank God we have Lent.

This isn't even all of them. They put this in EVERY superhero movie climax now.

It's similar to the ever-constant drowning of noise at any given store, restaurant, etc.  Always constant music (typically loud).  There is never any silence.  It would be too jarring for most, I believe. Thank God we have Lent.

I agree.  I was actually in a brick and mortar Dollar General store today and they were blasting an oldies radio station.  It was so loud I had to shout at a stock clerk* to get his attention to ask a question.  I recommend stocking up on whatever you’ll need for at least a few weeks by ordering online and having it delivered.  It’s worth the delivery fee to me to keep my peace of mind.  
*The clerk, a Gen. Z young man, pleasantly surprised me by not only being able to answer my question, but was polite and assisted me in reaching the item.