When we last spoke, he was building a new company and thinking even further ahead. “All of this nonsense is only going to last three to five more years, because in the future, people will stop trusting what they see on social media.” By then, the job will have moved one layer up. “You’ll have to start distributing your content toward AI agents and then they’ll teach humans what they want.”
I appreciate an article that shakes me awake from social media. I’m not on TikTok but I’ll get into slumps where I watch too much instagram reels. It’s felt less and less spontaneous though — even the sewing craft videos get monotonous when everybody is making the same wrap shirt all of the sudden.
Time to start seeing local shows, crafting IRL, and getting a better handle on my media diet. It’s difficult to 100% control one’s media and news intake, but I’m more disgusted by the thought of letting advertisers and ai decide what I need to hear about.
That was depressing and dystopian, it also confirms a suspicion I’ve had for years. That last line, “AI will teach them what they want.” Ugh! My skin is crawling.
What I find depressing is that people who are really embedded in Instagram and Tik Tok don't engage with the reality of who they're sharing the space with (trolls, bots, etc)
>“When Eric Adams was running for reelection, his team asked me to do a campaign with videos of AI-generated influencers shitting on Mamdani: ‘This grocery-store idea is bullshit.’” Lim says he turned down the Adams job not out of principle but because a consultant working with the campaign stopped replying to his emails. (Eric Adams’s former chief of staff Frank Carone tells me, “I have no knowledge about this, but I would have encouraged it.”)
I wish humanity wasn't so determined to ruin absolutely everything that is good in the world
If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
throwawayprocessing | 13 days ago
What a bleak article with a pessimistic ending.
When we last spoke, he was building a new company and thinking even further ahead. “All of this nonsense is only going to last three to five more years, because in the future, people will stop trusting what they see on social media.” By then, the job will have moved one layer up. “You’ll have to start distributing your content toward AI agents and then they’ll teach humans what they want.”
I appreciate an article that shakes me awake from social media. I’m not on TikTok but I’ll get into slumps where I watch too much instagram reels. It’s felt less and less spontaneous though — even the sewing craft videos get monotonous when everybody is making the same wrap shirt all of the sudden.
Time to start seeing local shows, crafting IRL, and getting a better handle on my media diet. It’s difficult to 100% control one’s media and news intake, but I’m more disgusted by the thought of letting advertisers and ai decide what I need to hear about.
LD50_irony | 13 days ago
It seemed more realistic than pessimistic to me.
I guess the upside is that I'm reading more actual, physical books these days because the online media landscape is a hot mess.
bunnycrush_ | 14 days ago
Dead Internet Theory is alive and well, even moreso than we imagined.
dammitOtto | 13 days ago
Thank you kind bot
bunnycrush_ | 12 days ago
Can’t a lady say a generic Reddit-ism once in a blue moon, as a treat? 🥲 I even read the essay first
[OP] zdlr | 14 days ago
Archive dot today link for those who aren't NYMag/Vulture subscribers and want to read it for free:
https://archive.md/OreAF
chicagorpgnorth | 14 days ago
Thanks for sharing this. I want to have my students read this :/
Sunnydayday | 13 days ago
I was thinking the same thing!
derpinpdx | 13 days ago
Ty for the link!
morguerunner | 13 days ago
Link is broken for me?
[OP] zdlr | 13 days ago
Are you on Starlink?
Archive dot today links don't play nice with Elon's satellite network for reasons unknown.
I just tested the link on my Internet Service Provider in Australia and it works fine after a CAPTCHA.
morguerunner | 13 days ago
Nah, not on Starlink. I think it was actually a WiFi problem on my end, lol oops.
SurpriseMiraluka | 13 days ago
That was depressing and dystopian, it also confirms a suspicion I’ve had for years. That last line, “AI will teach them what they want.” Ugh! My skin is crawling.
Thank you for sharing
[OP] zdlr | 13 days ago
No worries.
Shook me a bit from my algorithmic funk.
Corvid-Shade | 13 days ago
Well that’s a dystopian read to start my morning with
Ghosts_and_Empties | 13 days ago
Can I avoid this by seeking new music on DJ curated radio like KEXP, KKXT etc, or are they also under the influence?
Lazy-Field-1116 | 13 days ago
What I find depressing is that people who are really embedded in Instagram and Tik Tok don't engage with the reality of who they're sharing the space with (trolls, bots, etc)
nickelundertone | 13 days ago
>“When Eric Adams was running for reelection, his team asked me to do a campaign with videos of AI-generated influencers shitting on Mamdani: ‘This grocery-store idea is bullshit.’” Lim says he turned down the Adams job not out of principle but because a consultant working with the campaign stopped replying to his emails. (Eric Adams’s former chief of staff Frank Carone tells me, “I have no knowledge about this, but I would have encouraged it.”)
I wish humanity wasn't so determined to ruin absolutely everything that is good in the world
derpferd | 14 days ago
"What is real? How do you define 'real'?
If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."
[OP] zdlr | 13 days ago
-Morpheus
-The Matrix (1999)
cat_at_the_keyboard | 13 days ago
r/im14andthisisdeep
derpferd | 13 days ago
God alone knows why I've been so aggressively down voted for this.
WoodHammer40000 | 13 days ago
Probably agents of the matrix