According to the dead internet theory, everyone on the internet but you is a bot. I never believed that everyone online is fake, but a lot of what I see can't be real people. LLMs now make it trivially easy for everything online to be a bot.
The double punch of social media and the 24 hour news cycle devalued journalism. I've been thinking a lot this week about where the media goes from here.
Consuming, creating and engaging got bundled. Consuming became mindless. Creating became ostentatious. Engaging became a social expectation.
Large language models by themselves aren't truth machines. When an AI chatbot responds it doesn't know anything. We shouldn't use them like they do.
Content moderation is a red herring and getting practical with how genAI works and will make money.
We're all talking about how bad we feel using social media. But we're still using it and more than before.
The Vision Pro, ZIRP, and text-based social media.
The annual Jealousy List is, as always, stellar.
Plus how much for you to abandon your morals, your fav Lego minifigs, sunsets and more.
Plus Font Fish, GOAT, David Attenborough narrates your life and more.
Plus a kebab website, working class history, and some games with lessons.
Plus computer chips, fix your tennis technique, sci fi ideas bank and more.