José María Mateos via nettime-l on Thu, 5 Sep 2024 10:01:29 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> No evidence of digital wrong-doing...


On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 02:53:46PM -0600, Brian Holmes wrote:
Some people writing here have framed the results as a savage contest
between the corporate capacities of digital mind-manipulation and the
individual's autonomous capacity to self-educate. If that's the case, the
results are totally predictable: your mind is wiped.

Good news! AI tools have "democratized" access to digital mind-manipulation techniques. Now anyone can produce three viral images before breakfast. They'll be forwarded by our parents in their neighborhood WhatsApp groups faster than we can blink.

You don't even know if I actually wrote this message. The present, which was the future at the time the e-mail I'm responding to was written, turned out to be way worse than expected. I'll try to reply again in 5 years with another summary of the situation by then. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

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