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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Yes, you’re right about restricted content from Google and other search companies; but the point that I was trying to make is that if we rely on AI as a source of information, it will become more and more difficult to obtain the primary font of that information.

    There’s another side to that too: AI can “poison the well”, that is, create 24/7 misinformation and spread it on the web so that searching becomes unpractical, and then the AI can be sold as the answer to that problem.

    I mean, companies are putting a ton of money in this AI hype, it’s almost "too big to fail ". These same companies will begin to destroy and create problems in our current infrastructure so that they can sell the solution.















  • Exactly. And may I add to your point the privatization of public communication by social media ( especially Instagram ). It’s becoming very hard to find information about your city public action without an account on Instagram; now to be a citizen is required to have an “social media id”.

    Also, business are becoming hostages of Instagram: their only way to communicate with the customers is through this mediation. I think is very very important to platforms like pixelfed to become more popular and indeed brake these people free.