[deadbabe]

Every generation has their “I miss the time before ‘thing I don’t like’ became a thing”.

In our case, it’s just generative AI.

[mopenstein]

I miss the time before everybody was on the Internet when it was mostly like minded techie types. This modem internet kinda sucks with all its AI generated racism.

[bashinator]

Has every generation also seen the rise of massively-multiuser automated personalized propaganda engines?

[deadbabe]

TV was one hell of a propaganda engine.

[bashinator]

Not personalized. Imagine TV that can be exactly tuned to every individual viewers' taste.

[HaZeust]

was?

[thefz]

It cannot compete with millions of people glued to their pocket device for hours every day, in which they can see only what is not challenging - or reinforcing - their world view