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15 years ago, I wrote a book called The Filter Bubble, warning that algorithmic personalization was going to fracture our shared reality.
I’m sharing new research because we are about to do this again, but on a far bigger and faster scale. AI is coming for the info environment, and fast.
some thoughts.
1) gen-ai anything is REALLY unpopular. There is no getting around that and it is just as possible that this will solidify as it won't.
2)ai agents used like u project need an active and *accessible* (to them) internet to draw from. are people going to bother to make sites just for ai agents to browse? or wall them off?
3)most people organize irl via sms and in-person with people they know. Do they need/want a "neighborhood running/whatever app"? doubtful.
@elipariser
I moved into a delivery van in my youth. It was a wonderful experience. Escape the commercial world, and become a human animal again, is my advice.
The Filter Bubble was about algorithmically-sorted social media feeds. I was not alone in calling out the dangers for people and democracy, but as a society, we blew it.
The economics of the platforms won out over the public good, and now we’re all living in a pretty toxic information environment.
We’ve done a big deep dive with the @wearenew_public team on this for the last few months, and I put together this deck along with Angelica Quicksey and Arnobio Morelix. We’ve tried to get a clear-eyed view of what’s coming.
The full deck is at the top of the thread, but here are my three takeaways 👇
1️⃣ Most of the digital ecosystem we know is about to get destabilized by AI – rapidly.
2️⃣ The same forces breaking the old era are going to give us some new choices and options.
3️⃣ Those of us who care about the public good need to show up while the defaults are still being written.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/116563170424542817
I encourage you to read the whole presentation, and let me know what you think. What I want most from this is to start a conversation about what to do in this moment of change and opportunity.
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