Digital reality as a Ponzi scheme: you benefit from replies of others
In this world, with content as a supreme cultural value, it’s better for something to be interesting than ethically sound. Widespread attention bestows an aura; becoming content is how reality is made real.
Drew Austin • The grifter content mill
As the false output of artificial intelligence content generation gets mixed in with original human-generated content on the internet, the internet will become less and less useful. All the more so when intelligence agencies, corporations, governments, PR firms, and other propaganda actors us AI to deliberately seed the internet with false... See more
Charles Eisenstein • An unbelievable opportunity
Death of virality can be traced to social media’s algorithmic personalization, exponential growth of content (and content creators), and corresponding fragmentation of culture.More people, more content, smaller audiences.Small audiences are created through algorithmic personalization of the high volume of content. We see content, based on our taste... See more