> "Individual humans are the ones who choose to believe or not believe a thing. They are the ones who choose to share or not share a thing,"
This is just bullshit.
You can say the same thing about extracting confession under torture.. the individual "decided" to tell the truth, why shouldn't we admit it into evidence?
Those mega structures, controlled by billion parameter models, and then some human goes and does an interview and says 'ye no problem, its your choice', is most of all naive and arrogant, that anyone can even pretend to say they understand how the model is impacting the social structure.
As Jacques Ellul says, the strongest unit against propaganda is the family, or small groups of individuals, as they pull each other to the center of the group, but imagine now each individual is exposed to unique personalized propaganda, so the group constantly diverges. I imagine it like a group of friends holding hands in a pool, but then there is giant influx of water between them, so there is constant force to separate, so they have to keep their relationships stronger, and the force increases over time.
It is the people that seek propaganda, not the other way around. Now however the algorithm satisfies the search in most satisfactory way possible (within the limits of current technology)
This is just bullshit.
You can say the same thing about extracting confession under torture.. the individual "decided" to tell the truth, why shouldn't we admit it into evidence?
Those mega structures, controlled by billion parameter models, and then some human goes and does an interview and says 'ye no problem, its your choice', is most of all naive and arrogant, that anyone can even pretend to say they understand how the model is impacting the social structure.
As Jacques Ellul says, the strongest unit against propaganda is the family, or small groups of individuals, as they pull each other to the center of the group, but imagine now each individual is exposed to unique personalized propaganda, so the group constantly diverges. I imagine it like a group of friends holding hands in a pool, but then there is giant influx of water between them, so there is constant force to separate, so they have to keep their relationships stronger, and the force increases over time.
It is the people that seek propaganda, not the other way around. Now however the algorithm satisfies the search in most satisfactory way possible (within the limits of current technology)