'It's Raining Facts!' Metahaven, the YouTube Addicts Fighting Post-Truth Bots
Even The Platforms Want To Be Creators Now
Ryan Broderick • Selling your filter bubble back to you
All that exists is a relentlessly changing digital present tense.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
There was, however, an alternative theory. The internet was not primarily a channel for the transmission of information in the form of evidence. It was better described as a channel for the transmission of culture in the form of memes. Users didn’t field a lot of facts and then assemble them into a world view; they fielded a world view and used it ... See more
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral
But as AI accelerates our ability to (1) generate, (2) manipulate, and (3) distribute information, this weird tension becomes even more pronounced. We're entering an era where the battle between content and context will reshape how all policy is created, communicated, and understood. Digital platforms and AI tools have created an environment where:
Kyla Scanlon • Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.