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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
And somewhere in that sickly trade, suspicion became woven into the fabric of trust.
This, however, is not only a story of individuals gone rogue. The ugly collective picture of the techno-elites that emerges from the Epstein scandal reveals them as a bunch of morally bankrupt opportunists. To treat their ideas as genuine but wrong is too generous; the only genuine thing about them is their fakeness. Big tech and its apologists do produce the big thoughts – alas, mostly accidental byproducts of them chasing the big bucks.
The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites
Evgeny Morozov
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