Social Media is Ruining Us

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        "text": "Over at the Atlantic, Jonathan Haidt has a piece on Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. I don\u2019t completely agree with his premise and feel like some of the examples are a bit of a reach, but the central premise \u2013 namely, that social media (and especially algorithmic social media) is rapidly eroding the social fabric and making us collectively dumber \u2013 feels pretty spot on, with some citations from research on the matter to back it up.\n\n\n\n\nBut gradually, social-media users became more comfortable sharing intimate details of their lives with strangers and corporations. As I wrote in\u00a0a 2019\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0article\u00a0with Tobias Rose-Stockwell, they became more adept at putting on performances and managing their personal brand\u2014activities that might impress others but that do not deepen friendships in the way that a private phone conversation will.\nOnce social-media platforms had trained users to spend more time performing and less time connecting, the stage was set for the major transformation, which began in 2009: the intensification of viral dynamics.\n\n\n\n\nFurther:\n\n\n\n\nBy 2013, social media had become a new game, with dynamics unlike those in 2008. If you were skillful or lucky, you might create a post that would \u201cgo viral\u201d and make you \u201cinternet famous\u201d for a few days. If you blundered, you could find yourself buried in hateful comments. Your posts rode to fame or ignominy based on the clicks of thousands of strangers, and you in turn contributed thousands of clicks to the game.\nThis new game encouraged\u00a0dishonesty\u00a0and mob dynamics: Users were guided not just by their true preferences but by their past experiences of reward and punishment, and their prediction of how others would react to each new action. One of the engineers at Twitter who had worked on the \u201cRetweet\u201d button later revealed that he regretted his contribution because it had made Twitter a nastier place. As he watched Twitter mobs forming through the use of the new tool,\u00a0he thought to himself, \u201cWe might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon.\u201d\nAs a social psychologist who studies emotion, morality, and politics, I saw this happening too. The newly tweaked platforms were almost perfectly designed to bring out our most moralistic and least reflective selves. The volume of outrage was shocking.\n\n\n\n\nAnd let\u2019s not forget what current trends in AI end up allowing:\n\n\n\nNow, however, artificial intelligence is close to enabling the limitless spread of highly believable disinformation. The AI program GPT-3 is already so good that you can give it a topic and a tone and it will spit out as many essays as you like, typically with perfect grammar and a surprising level of coherence. In a year or two, when the program is upgraded to GPT-4, it will become far more capable. In a 2020 essay titled \u201cThe Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite,\u201d Ren\u00e9e DiResta, the research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, explained that spreading falsehoods\u2014whether through text, images, or deep-fake videos\u2014will quickly become inconceivably easy. (She co-wrote the essay with GPT-3.)\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s a bit of a long read, and it\u2019s okay if you don\u2019t 100% agree with his points, but there\u2019s a lot there worth considering. He does end the piece somewhat hopeful, by offering some suggestions on things that could be done to help the situation. I\u2019m a bit less optimistic that we\u2019ll be able to implement any of those reforms, and unfortunately have no other ideas of ways to come back from our current state.",
        "html": "<p>Over at the Atlantic, <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/jonathan-haidt/\">Jonathan Haidt</a> has a piece on <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/\">Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid</a>. I don\u2019t completely agree with his premise and feel like some of the examples are a bit of a reach, but the central premise \u2013 namely, that social media (and especially algorithmic social media) is rapidly eroding the social fabric and making us collectively dumber \u2013 feels pretty spot on, with some citations from research on the matter to back it up.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>But gradually, social-media users became more comfortable sharing intimate details of their lives with strangers and corporations. As I wrote in\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-media-democracy/600763/\">a 2019\u00a0<em>Atlantic</em>\u00a0article</a>\u00a0with Tobias Rose-Stockwell, they became more adept at putting on performances and managing their personal brand\u2014activities that might impress others but that do not deepen friendships in the way that a private phone conversation will.</p>\n<p>Once social-media platforms had trained users to spend more time performing and less time connecting, the stage was set for the major transformation, which began in 2009: the intensification of viral dynamics.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Further:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>By 2013, social media had become a new game, with dynamics unlike those in 2008. If you were skillful or lucky, you might create a post that would \u201cgo viral\u201d and make you \u201cinternet famous\u201d for a few days. If you blundered, you could find yourself buried in hateful comments. Your posts rode to fame or ignominy based on the clicks of thousands of strangers, and you in turn contributed thousands of clicks to the game.</p>\n<p>This new game encouraged\u00a0<a href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aap9559\">dishonesty</a>\u00a0and mob dynamics: Users were guided not just by their true preferences but by their past experiences of reward and punishment, and their prediction of how others would react to each new action. One of the engineers at Twitter who had worked on the \u201cRetweet\u201d button later revealed that he regretted his contribution because it had made Twitter a nastier place. As he watched Twitter mobs forming through the use of the new tool,\u00a0<a href=\"http://buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet\">he thought to himself</a>, \u201cWe might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon.\u201d</p>\n<p>As a social psychologist who studies emotion, morality, and politics, I saw this happening too. The newly tweaked platforms were almost perfectly designed to bring out our most moralistic and least reflective selves. The volume of outrage was shocking.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And let\u2019s not forget what current trends in AI end up allowing:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>Now, however, artificial intelligence is close to enabling the limitless spread of highly believable disinformation. The AI program GPT-3 is already so good that you can give it a topic and a tone and it will spit out as many essays as you like, typically with perfect grammar and a surprising level of coherence. In a year or two, when the program is upgraded to GPT-4, it will become far more capable. In a 2020 essay titled \u201c<a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/future-propaganda-will-be-computer-generated/616400/\">The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite</a>,\u201d Ren\u00e9e DiResta, the research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, explained that spreading falsehoods\u2014whether through text, images, or deep-fake videos\u2014will quickly become inconceivably easy. (She co-wrote the essay with GPT-3.)</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a bit of a long read, and it\u2019s okay if you don\u2019t 100% agree with his points, but there\u2019s a lot there worth considering. He does end the piece somewhat hopeful, by offering some suggestions on things that could be done to help the situation. I\u2019m a bit less optimistic that we\u2019ll be able to implement <em>any</em> of those reforms, and unfortunately have no other ideas of ways to come back from our current state.</p>"
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A Legacy of Words

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        "name": "Jared White",
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    "url": "https://jaredwhite.com/20220429/legacy-of-words",
    "published": "2022-04-29T15:17:22-07:00",
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        "html": "<p>Alongside the \u201cGreat Resignation\u201d of 2021-2022, we are witnessing the \u201cGreat Recognition\u201d of the simple fact that the <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/openweb\">#openweb</a> is the only digital space where you can leave a true legacy as a thinker and a writer.</p>\n\n<p>Walled gardens like <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/facebook\">#Facebook</a>, <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/twitter\">#Twitter</a>, Medium, and many others have tried to capture words over the decades. <strong>They failed.</strong> 100 years from now, when people look back in time to witness What People Thought, they won\u2019t be gleaning the highest wisdom and deepest insights from tweets and likes and shares.</p>\n\n<p>It will be Articles. Essays. In other words, Blog Posts. (Before you say \u201cwhat about Newspaper Columns?\u201d\u2014in this day and age they might as well just be considered Blog Posts because we typically consume them the exact same way.)</p>\n\n<p>Medium-to-longform content, written by individuals, and largely posted on independent websites for all the world to see. Not trapped inside a social network, but freely accessible*. I\u2019ve never been more bullish on the power of the <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/openweb\">#openweb</a> to both contain and promote forward thinking than I am today.</p>\n\n<p>* Rest assured I\u2019m not making a case here against paywalls\u2014even paywalled <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/writing\">#writing</a> can be \u201cfreely accessible\u201d on the open web in the sense that you don\u2019t need to join a Big Tech platform to make <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/payments\">#payments</a> in order to access the content.</p>",
        "text": "Alongside the \u201cGreat Resignation\u201d of 2021-2022, we are witnessing the \u201cGreat Recognition\u201d of the simple fact that the #openweb is the only digital space where you can leave a true legacy as a thinker and a writer.\n\nWalled gardens like #Facebook, #Twitter, Medium, and many others have tried to capture words over the decades. They failed. 100 years from now, when people look back in time to witness What People Thought, they won\u2019t be gleaning the highest wisdom and deepest insights from tweets and likes and shares.\n\nIt will be Articles. Essays. In other words, Blog Posts. (Before you say \u201cwhat about Newspaper Columns?\u201d\u2014in this day and age they might as well just be considered Blog Posts because we typically consume them the exact same way.)\n\nMedium-to-longform content, written by individuals, and largely posted on independent websites for all the world to see. Not trapped inside a social network, but freely accessible*. I\u2019ve never been more bullish on the power of the #openweb to both contain and promote forward thinking than I am today.\n\n* Rest assured I\u2019m not making a case here against paywalls\u2014even paywalled #writing can be \u201cfreely accessible\u201d on the open web in the sense that you don\u2019t need to join a Big Tech platform to make #payments in order to access the content."
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    "url": "https://aaronparecki.com/2022/04/29/45/livestreaming",
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        "text": "A super amazing bunch of creators joined me this morning for a fantastic discussion about livestreaming! Catch the replay here! https://youtu.be/6ABny7TrYNY \n\n@rockynashlive @photojoseph @nickisun @prep2perform @heystephanie @monteweaver \n\nThanks @YoloLiv for bringing us all together!",
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        "text": "A super amazing bunch of creators joined me this morning for a fantastic discussion about livestreaming! Catch the replay here! youtu.be/6ABny7TrYNY\n\n@rockynashlive @photojoseph @nickisun @prep2perform @heystephanie @monteweaver\n\nThanks @YoloLiv for bringing us all together!",
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        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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    "published": "2022-04-29T22:58:08+00:00",
    "url": "https://twitter.com/jaredcwhite/status/1520175628720349185",
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        "text": "A Legacy of Words\n\nWalled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, Medium, and many others have tried to capture words over the decades. They failed.\n\nI\u2019ve never been more bullish on the power of the #openweb to both contain and promote forward thinking.\n\njaredwhite.com/20220429/legac\u2026",
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