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It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
Propaganda
Edward L. Bernays
To make reality seem more scarce and more valuable, generative AI can be put to work on multiple fronts. It can be used in different ways to make people “inauthentic.” It can tempt us to prompt for “unreality,” trapping us in a kind of fantasy of autonomy that impedes our spontaneity and traps us in a sort of mirror. Or it can be used to overwhelm our screens, our current access points to reality, with content whose “reality” has been rendered unstable.
The Egg of Experience
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.
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