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If the legions of Facebook likers can be placated with AI-generated viral content, that would protect actual people from the downsides that come with unwanted or unexpected publicity at uncontrollable scale. Maybe it would be better if only bots and fakes went viral and not actual people who suffer actual fallout from it. Any story where the specific identity of the person doesn’t matter to its appeal may as well be populated with an AI-generated character.
Have You Heard the Word
Rob Horning
What was interesting for me in the subject of mass shooters was their prophetic aura: they were a forewarning and the presentiment of a coming mutation. Like angels, they were offering signs at the border of the Western psychosphere, in the duplicitous zone between reality and the infosphere.
This notion of a "user agent" is a holdover from a more civilized age, when technologists tried to figure out how to build a new digital space where technology served users.
The Disenshittified Internet Starts With Loyal "User Agents"
Cory Doctorow
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