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Welcome to the metaverse. But not the Marvel one, or the Facebook one. More like a podcast about making a podcast?
We exist in an attention economy where value comes from the length of engagement with digital content. Ben Moorman, Staley Zheng, and I discuss how our roles as internet users and content creators shape our interactions in the digital and material world. Much of our conversation revolves around the actual process of making podcasts, like this one, engaging for an audience. Personally, I struggle with the tension I feel contributing content to a media ecosystem that cultivates disinformation and feeds on polarization. Just as social media companies design their platforms to keep users online, I strive to retain listeners for as long as possible by shaping a message to be more compelling. Just as advertisement companies find new spaces to infiltrate with ads, I use our social media to grow our audience. Now obviously this platform is far too small to make any observable impact, but quickly you can see how an ecosystem of users and creators with similar motivations can lead to the media hellscape we navigate every day. How can it be that a tool meant to connect people can render us isolated? How can unlimited access to knowledge lead to information silos and rigid worldviews?
It seems that many of the most beautiful powers of the internet are becoming increasingly difficult to access due to excessive noise and confusion. Simultaneously, some of the most powerful AI tools are now publicly available to anyone with an internet connection. At this strange inflection point, I think it is necessary to have conversations that reconsider the architecture of the internet and our online behaviors to imagine a future that harnesses the power of new technologies like AI to promote accessible information, data privacy, and digital autonomy. We only begin to scratch the surface of these massive questions, but this episode along with the two previous installments of this series build a basis for which to explore issues related to our shared digital future. If you are actually reading this right now and have any opinions on the potential success or failure of Web 3.0, please email me at [email protected] as I'd really love to dig into the technical side of this conversation in a future episode.
Follow us on Instagram @11_59_pod
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References:
"Facebook will push you to read articles before you share them" - Vox
"What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law?" - EU
"AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit" - The Verge
"The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning" - Tech Crunch
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By Coly TabbersonWelcome to the metaverse. But not the Marvel one, or the Facebook one. More like a podcast about making a podcast?
We exist in an attention economy where value comes from the length of engagement with digital content. Ben Moorman, Staley Zheng, and I discuss how our roles as internet users and content creators shape our interactions in the digital and material world. Much of our conversation revolves around the actual process of making podcasts, like this one, engaging for an audience. Personally, I struggle with the tension I feel contributing content to a media ecosystem that cultivates disinformation and feeds on polarization. Just as social media companies design their platforms to keep users online, I strive to retain listeners for as long as possible by shaping a message to be more compelling. Just as advertisement companies find new spaces to infiltrate with ads, I use our social media to grow our audience. Now obviously this platform is far too small to make any observable impact, but quickly you can see how an ecosystem of users and creators with similar motivations can lead to the media hellscape we navigate every day. How can it be that a tool meant to connect people can render us isolated? How can unlimited access to knowledge lead to information silos and rigid worldviews?
It seems that many of the most beautiful powers of the internet are becoming increasingly difficult to access due to excessive noise and confusion. Simultaneously, some of the most powerful AI tools are now publicly available to anyone with an internet connection. At this strange inflection point, I think it is necessary to have conversations that reconsider the architecture of the internet and our online behaviors to imagine a future that harnesses the power of new technologies like AI to promote accessible information, data privacy, and digital autonomy. We only begin to scratch the surface of these massive questions, but this episode along with the two previous installments of this series build a basis for which to explore issues related to our shared digital future. If you are actually reading this right now and have any opinions on the potential success or failure of Web 3.0, please email me at [email protected] as I'd really love to dig into the technical side of this conversation in a future episode.
Follow us on Instagram @11_59_pod
**That one emoji 🤦♀️**
References:
"Facebook will push you to read articles before you share them" - Vox
"What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law?" - EU
"AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit" - The Verge
"The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning" - Tech Crunch