Tuesday, September 15, 2020

#gorenoise vol. 32

 “You are constantly being nudged, steered, and manipulated into acquiescing further. The more attention each of us gives the internet, the more our capacity to reflect on nuance is eroded. As we begin to think in more binary terms, we are further socialised into a system designed for machine efficiency and economic extraction by a handful of corporations.”

Forget fighting machines of glittering metal. AI is taking over the world through social media.

“If that sounds like we are being nudged to become more like machines it’s because we are,” Mr Rogers says. “Machines see humans as noise. Noise is inefficient. When humans acquiesce machines seem smarter, but they are nothing of the sort. It’s humans who have been diminished.”

TikTok suicide video: Sick reason Ronnie McNutt’s death went viral

The video of Ronnie McNutt’s suicide traumatised kids who saw it on their social media feeds - but how it got there is also disturbing.

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