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The arrival of large globally networked social media platforms powered by AI, which is the context in which 21st-century humans do most of our reading, has further fractured the more than 600-year-long intimate relationship between the humanist reader and the author, to the point where it is becoming difficult to speak about the reader’s experience of a text independent of the social media response, which is being consistently gamed by the hidden hands of political operatives, large corporations, intelligence agencies, and other arms of the state.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
Charlie Warzel, warning that AI editing tools will “Photoshop our memories” and cheat our future selves of being able to grasp the authentic texture of our past lives.
> AI photo tools are a blatant appeal to vanity, a tacit admission that, in the battle between Instagram and reality, the former has won. The obsessions with photo-editing apps and even the standard custom of taking half a dozen snaps to get the right shot suggests that most people are not overly precious about fidelity.
Another Three Things
Rob Horning
Has anyone with the power to shape this transition thought seriously about what it means for the people alive today who didn’t get a vote on any of it?
The Dead Economy Theory
Owen McGrann
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