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The role of human curators is not just to select and present content but to imbue the digital landscape with a sense of reliability and authenticity that only human insight can provide. In an age where technology can easily mislead or overwhelm, trusting in human curation becomes not a preference but a necessity for preserving the quality of the information that shapes our understanding of the world.
Curation Is the Last Best Hope of Intelligent Discourse.
Joan Westenberg
If you think, however, that the problem of artificial intelligence—and technology under capitalism more generally—is that it has been beholden to the military-industrial complex from the start and serves to concentrate power, a few questions make a good start: How should we develop artificial intelligence, how should it be funded, how should computational resources be distributed, how should various technologies and the means of producing them be owned? Narayanan and Kapoor seem to believe that the main problem is hype. Whether they realize it or not, that’s a form of snake oil, too.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
But you should know that **your exhaustion is not a moral failing**: it's a system working as intended. The current social contract does not allow for all these things–the pursuit of decent income, passions, and restoration.
The Attention Wars: Why Creative Time Is Now Contraband
Kōdō Simone
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