My first taste of AI was “SmarterChild” in the early 2000s. It was a chatbot you could have a “conversation” with when your real friends weren’t online — but, even as a preteen, I could see the tech needed a lesson in how to humanize AI content.
Is AI slop training us to be better critical thinkers?
The rise of the skeptical user in an age of synthetic media Illustration by Gemma Smith I’ve been following the discourse around AI-generated content closely. My original hypothesis for social media was simple: IF algorithms shepherd us toward comfortable, familiar preferences, THEN it will kill nuance and critical thinking. But that’s not what is happening with … Weiterlesen