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It's not as if humans slavishly obeying the algorithms was a much better situation than robots doing it. They've just sped up the process and it can only hasten the demise of the new technofeudalist content mills.
Yeah, just based on the summery here, I'm not really upset about this. An engagement-maximising brainrot feed was never a great way to understand important issues in the real world.
If you just want to slip into TikTok for a couple hours I see little problem with all-AI content, if you want news go here or directly to a reputable news agency, and if you want to learn something new start with Wikipedia and then branch out once you know what you're looking for.
You are describing how non-brainwashed educated and intelligent people behave. Unfortunately, here in the USA, there are a very large percentage of brainwashed people (that may or may not be educated and intelligent).
Sure. But if there's not even the illusion the brainrot is real life, maybe they'll give it a try.
(And it's not just America. You don't have to be that hard on yourselves, dumb people are everywhere)