Very sobering opinion piece. For all the talks about a China / USA race, it feels more like two flavors of the same dystopia. The race is just here to justify acting against their own population interest. The result is then the increase in illiberal fixations and nihilistic world views. This can't end well.
What a surprise... It turns out it's very easy to manipulate AI "search". Something which operates of statistical similarity to queries, who knew it could be manipulated. 🙄
How do you like our particular brand of dystopia? That's what you get for using proprietary data farming game I guess.
Things which matter take time. The calls to productivity and technology pushing us toward faster response on everything is killing what makes our humanity.
Good point, the booing on Eric Schimidt's commencement speech is likely not just about him talking about AI at some point. You see, the man has very heavy baggage... He's one of the architects of the current dystopia but won't acknowledge it.
Ultimately, they just want people to stay on the pages they fully control and not have them visit anything out of their mall.
This is good and sane advice to survive the attention economy and take care of your mental health. It's not too hard to put in place if you're not already doing it.
A good piece, well designed too. Shows how demanding our current devices are. So much attention requested and so much complexity the user has to deal with. We clearly lost the plot as an industry.
Interesting food for thought about the information ecosystem we live in. It's been distorted by the constant stream of content, so it's very hard to find the good journalism within the noise.
If you're wondering the kind of dumpster fire Facebook is now, that gives an idea. It was crap all along for sure, but clearly they crossed another threshold.
Oh this is bad! The amount of data exfiltrated by those malicious extensions. Data brokers will do anything they can to have something to resell. This is also a security and corporate espionage hazard.
I'm not sure I'm quite ready to use this... Still I like the idea, make some noise and have companies turning to those invasive ads to just pay for nothing. The more users the better I guess.
Clearly a trial to keep an eye on. Some of those internal memos might prove decisive.
Excellent historical perspective on how we ended up with applications filled with annoying interruptions and notifications. It's been done indeed one step at a time and lead to poor UX really.
Those are indeed getting more popular. In a way that's unfortunate, we shouldn't need them so much.
There was indeed another path for social media... Let's hope the Fediverse stay on this course.
Or why the focus on fact checking is doomed to fail. You can't ignore our biases, the social context, and above all the toxic architecture of the big social medias.
Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.
Such a nice business model... not. There's really a lack of regulation in this space.
I think the title should say "social media" rather than "the Internet". That said, the trend is indeed clear... those big tech companies look more and more like TV broadcaster. So remember you turned off the TV for a reason.