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Social media algorithms on "the internet" have caused wars, supported genocides, created extreme societal polarization, have led to dramatically increased suicide rates among teens, especially teen girls, and more.

But I got to share baby pics with my mom.

How will a far noisier information flow help? Generative AI will only help us do what we've been doing in far greater quantity. Just like calculators can only help you get the wrong answer faster when you don't know what you're doing. These tools will help us build societal disasters with far greater speed.

To say it's all going to be much better seems a bit Pollyanna to me.

And for the record, we know for a fact that ChatGPT is specifically constrained to give one particular side of political issues, not "all sides."




None of those claims about the effects of social media hold up under inspection. They're all academic pseudo-babble. Look at the Haidt response to people pointing out his evidence of social media = suicides isn't robust; he doesn't argue the evidence actually is robust, he argues that censoring social media shouldn't require you to actually prove your case!

These ideas are all motivated narratives by people who want to control the internet to try and re-establish the world where their intuitions are the only ones allowed to be expressed.


none of the problems you mentioned are caused by the internet.

These are human problems. Humans cause them, not the tool. I would not give up the tool, just because said tool could be misused by some people to do harm. Just like i don't stop driving just because there's some people who run others over.

May be some regulation is important - but only _after_ it has been shown to have caused harm, and that the harm is not outweighed by the good.


Attention is ultimately limited. It doesn't matter how much content is being created if it isn't being pushed.

The problem hasn't been content creation for a long time.




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