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But using generative AI to automate information retrieval doesn’t merely lead to inaccurate information production; it also further curtails human agency in the process and prevents the sorts of social negotiations that determine how information is organized. Instead models organize information according to “discovered” norms within data sets that correspond to no particular rule or intention but instead enforce a higher-order rule that the entities that control the data sets necessarily control how information is ordered and accessed.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
What appears before us is a near-empty sleeve, which may have once contained a fuller version of the self under consideration.
Narcissus in Bloom
Matt Colquhoun
McMillan Cottom notes that obesity is a social problem — an unevenly distributed outcome produced by how society is deliberately organized — and drugs like Ozempic make it seem as though it can be addressed by isolated individuals. This individualistic cure then reinforces the individualized stigma fomented by social policy. Not only are individuals seen as fully responsible for their condition (as though there is a “level playing field” in society and no systemic biases) but their failure to address it with expensive medication will be a further mark against them.
The Cure for Consumerism
Rob Horning
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