* Insérez ici blague fun du style What a week * (c'était compliqué, comme semaine en vrai).
All this math, all this time, all this work, all this capital, all of it dedicated to delivering the most predictable, boring, average thing. We’ll take all the data you’ve given us, and we’ll press it down into the content equivalent of beige, flavorless paste.
And suddenly, the “artificial intelligence” industry makes a lot more sense.
The person who was supposed to protect us from the machine becomes the person who protects the machine, and those who designed and deployed it, from accountability.
When power is distributed inequitably, then the empowering potentials of information access are distributed unevenly too and those with the capacity to both profit off free information and then use it to reinscribe inequitable power relations will do just that.
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The ease now with which information is availed to people by summary means that there is a screen between people and the actual sources of information they seek.