Advertising
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions. LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers’ personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company’s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors
Enshittifcation
The rapid spread of memes, trends, and corporate jargon on social media has led to a homogenization of online communication, making it difficult to distinguish original content and creating a sense of constant noise. The enshittifcation of social media, particularly due to its speed and virality, has led to millions vying for their moment in
Immigration
“Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration” And I thought that the Anti-Robot project was adding noise. The Robot is a silly amateur. All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same
Media
Mediums matter more than content; it’s the common rules that govern all creation and consumption across a medium that change people and society. Oral culture teaches us to think one way, written culture another. Television turned everything into entertainment, and social media taught us to think with the crowd.
Media
Impact, an app that describes itself as “AI-powered infrastructure for shaping and managing narratives in the modern world,” is testing a way to organize and activate supporters on social media in order to promote certain political messages. The app aims to summon groups of supporters who will flood social media with AI-written talking points designed
Climate
Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media. On November 14, the US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which found that the United States is already