brockm on Nostr: Free media and free platforms are not free. We pay for them through loss of agency ...
Free media and free platforms are not free. We pay for them through loss of agency and the behavioral manipulation algorithms that drive their ad-based monetization. If one values human agency as critically important to the concept of human flourishing, as I do, then one might suggest there's a severely uncaptured externality here worth internalizing through policy. And AI now makes these a particularly pressing issue.
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