Repost, but worth it.
This is what the “Luddite” attitude to technology actually is. It’s also important to remember that “recommendation” models are also a problem, it’s not just the slop generators that need to go.
Repost, but worth it.
This is what the “Luddite” attitude to technology actually is. It’s also important to remember that “recommendation” models are also a problem, it’s not just the slop generators that need to go.
This issue might be that it is an algorithm customised to the individual, as opposed to programming chosen by people to work for all.
Indeed, enormous differences.
You can think of the cultural difference between TV and internet regarding series. In the ‘90s, everyone was watching the same episode the same day. If you missed it, you better have it recorded otherwise you just lost it.
Nowadays, everyone is watching something different at a different time. It’s not a shared experience anymore. This can be capitalized by the recommendation algorithm to create a program that is only for you, no more global experience. In this new set up, you find yourself in a bubble of likeminded individuals because you are never exposed to anything else. So extremism can run rampant. It’s the other side of the coin of being able to find nice communities by for your niche hobbies.
Like when Hearst used his media empire to get the US into the Spanish American war?
That’s propaganda, a separate (but related) thing