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Argument analysis of Andreessen’s ‘AI Will Save the World’ article

Trends in the Living Networks

I’m in San Francisco at the Internet Archive (one of the most wonderful artefacts in the history of the web – read about it ), attending an AI Knowledge Mapping Hackathon run by Society Library Founder Jamie Joyce , The event supports the building of a knowledge graph of public debates. It’s a great exercise.

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Why I’m Not Writing About Generative AI

Forrester IT

Great Leaders Know When And How To Deploy The Next Technology Unless you’ve been on a social media/internet detox for the last six months, you’ve no doubt noticed this thing called generative AI. Every article […] It has triggered a hype cycle the likes of which have not been seen since the launch of the McRib.

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Pew Report: Speaking Up or Staying Silent on Social Media

CTOvision

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. In the 1970s, an article in the Journal of Communication by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” to describe the observed phenomenon. By Shannon Perry.

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Supreme Court set to decide major First Amendment cases for online speech

TechSpot

Are social media and online discussion spaces platforms or publishers? Regulators and political watchdogs have pondered these questions since the early days of the internet. They have become even more prominent with the rise of social. Read Entire Article Read Entire Article

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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. It’s a tragedy because you only need one copy of the video for this thing to live forever online and endlessly multiply,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media.

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Fans are frustrated after leaked gameplay footage reveals Starfield is harder to explore than Bethesda let on

TechSpot

Of course, as the internet is known to do, social media went full-on torches and pitchforks, bad-mouthing. Read Entire Article A few people got their hands on advanced copies of Starfield and began leaking screenshots and footage alleging the game is not as open and explorable as Bethesda has led us to believe.

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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

Vox

The internet is full of terrible corners, but none are as skin-crawling as what you see when you open a new account on TikTok. Amidst the growing thirst for captivating or sensationalist narratives, several true crime and history podcasts have been accused of plagiarizing written articles without credit over the past few years.