I feel like this applies to…everything these days. Taste is so important and people will pay for it. There's so much garbage and sameness and my theory is people are tired of getting 'what they want,' which really means, what a bunch of soulless analytics *say* people want. But
@cwarzel
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AI Technology Risk: Potential Hospital Admissions Predicted
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they’re gonna send ppl to the hospital lol pic.twitter.com/PXsaOzJtkY
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) 20 avril 2024they’re gonna send ppl to the hospital lol
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Internet Architecture Obscures Human Reality Behind Engagement
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Wrote One last time about the Kate Middleton fiasco. How the internet is made up of people, yet its architecture obscures this basic truth. We’re all just fodder for somebody else’s engagement online (gift link in next post)
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Attention Effects Transform Our Perception of Emerging Technologies
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something weird happens when we start paying more attention to things that we weren't paying that much attention to!
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Declining Trust in Technology: A Justified Concern
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i’m not saying the decline in trust is not merited
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Institutional Trust Decline Not Purely Technological Phenomenon
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it’s hard to talk about this without striking a doomer tone but part of why i wanted to write this was to suggest that this isn’t some new phenomenon…it really seems less purely technological and a lot more to do with waning trust in institutions
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Post-Truth Era: Deepfakes and Image Manipulation Beyond AI
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This post-truth era doesn’t feel like chaotic science fiction—it's mundane. A pervasive, low-grade disorientation, suspicion, and distrust. The royal-photo fiasco shows the deepfake age doesn’t need to be powered by generative AI—a hasty Photoshop will do.
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Internet Conspiracy Language and Celebrity Obsession Culture
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Wrote about Kate Middleton, "I need to know everything," internet poisoning, and how people now just use conspiracy language to casually talk about famous people
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Tackling Misinformation: Deepfakes and Fake News Online
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logged in here for the first time in 2 weeks and checked my mentions…spam and crypto follows and then trolls just photoshopping fake articles with my byline on them. fun website!
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Biden Campaign’s Moneyball Approach to Social Media Strategy
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Also thought this observation from the Biden campaign was interesting/telling about the state of the internet. Social media strategy for presidents used to be trying to hit home runs…now it's Moneyball. (gift link!) https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2024/02/joe-biden-tiktok-account/677453/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0T6ZFl9TjcHKBvBEnskz4cU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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