“The new public sphere looks less like the New York Times, then, and more like a conversation or argument among countless independent or quasi-independent interpreters—some rigorous, some reckless or, worse, conspiratorial, but all accountable directly to their audiences. … This is the realization of Huber’s prediction: a decentralized, often personality-driven media universe.”
For now, but imagine a world that was a fraction of an inch away from being realized with AI acting as the final and unquestionable arbiter of truth but wasn’t content to only answer questions but seek out speech it didn’t like.
AI is the perfect tool for authoritarians as it allows them to obfuscate what they are doing to censor society by using the Magic Computer tactic, which is basically people saying they didn’t do something, the computer did. For example, when Comey said they checked all of Hillary’s emails over a weekend thanks to magic computers.
…and it’ll be the AI telling us the lies. It’s just more efficient that way…
“The new public sphere looks less like the New York Times, then, and more like a conversation or argument among countless independent or quasi-independent interpreters—some rigorous, some reckless or, worse, conspiratorial, but all accountable directly to their audiences. … This is the realization of Huber’s prediction: a decentralized, often personality-driven media universe.”
For now, but imagine a world that was a fraction of an inch away from being realized with AI acting as the final and unquestionable arbiter of truth but wasn’t content to only answer questions but seek out speech it didn’t like.
AI is the perfect tool for authoritarians as it allows them to obfuscate what they are doing to censor society by using the Magic Computer tactic, which is basically people saying they didn’t do something, the computer did. For example, when Comey said they checked all of Hillary’s emails over a weekend thanks to magic computers.
…and it’ll be the AI telling us the lies. It’s just more efficient that way…