algorithmic anxiety
in preparation for the RADAR event
algorithmic anxiety
Related, are our searches and consumption driven by preferences or inquisitiveness?
would this change when AI becomes search?
So much of culture now is about soliciting attention by any means necessary, and the attention is the goal and the measure of success. The thing itself is secondary. — KC
taste is algorithmically done but it comes from within your own frame of experiences and knowledge
another interesting point — you can be interested but not like it.
"The Taste Economy" by Daisy Alioto at FWB FEST24
youtube.comlink to data sovereignty?
"Digital technologies privilege our impulses over our intentions ."
ESTRATIJIRONES vol 156.
It becomes something of a Faustian bargain, because our online habits and behaviors are carrion for tech vultures. As we scroll, they feast
The New Pornographers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
... See moreShould the human fashion editor tell you what to like or should it be the algorithmic machine, in the form of the Amazon bookstore, Spotify feed, or Netflix home page? That is the central dilemma of culture in Filterworld.
The former option is mercurial and driven by elite gatekeepers, a powerful group built up over a century of modern cultural
The network of algorithms makes so many decisions for us, and yet we have little way of talking back to it or changing how it works.
This imbalance induces a state of passivity: We consume what the feeds recommend to us without engaging too deeply with the material.
We also adapt the way we present ourselves online to its incentives. We write
... See more... See moreThe hollowed-out meaning of taste in the Filterworld era has something in common with the way engagement is measured by digital platforms: it's a snap judgment predicated mostly on whether something provokes immediate like or dislike. Taste's moral capac-ity, the idea that it generally leads an individual toward a better society as well as better