[Video] The World Would be Better Off After Social Control Media 'Addiction' and LLMs Hype
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WE'VE been catching up most of the day today and this is the last video from yesterday's batch. The video highlights the fact that British media habitually says far-right protests/riots happen, even when there are counter-protests and the matter has become more complicated since last week. While some portion of the British population feels sympathy for them, either the protests or the counter-protests, many just want to get back to normal and stop giving them media coverage, which they all along craved (that's why they make those terrifying spectacles). Regardless, Social Control Media (or social control media) has been giving them a platform and lots of publicity (see "Cops Scouring Social Control Media Looking for Who to Arrest"). On both sides. Fueled by fame, those idiots carry on vandalising and spreading hate online instead of calming things down. It is possible to calm people down, by means of diplomacy and shared interests; it's easier to do so with responsible media that lacks a financial incentive to encourage conflict (for "engagement") and may instead seek collective benefit. Nation-building and Social Control Media do not mix well. Read "Why I've Quit Twitter" by the late Pieter Hintjens, who said (around 2016; he was ahead of his time): "The 21st century media is a different animal from old media. Gone are the careful, slow investigations and analyses. In their place we see click races and catch phrases. After a significant court trial such as that of Jian Ghomeshi, they prepare two pieces, one for each outcome. Each is designed to trigger maximum outrage. Seconds after the announcement, the pieces go live, and the tweets flow."
Our stance on this has been consistent: Social Control Media is generally very harmful to society, but politicians like to focus on the Chinese one (TikTok), not the Saudi one (because the latter is an "ally" or prominent oil supplier). The Twitter/KSA link by far predates Elon Musk. "People seem quite OK with KSA and its politics and global ambitions," an associate has said, "if Twitter, X, Xitter usage is any indicator."
Well, people must be reminded of who owns which platform/s and what the overall goals are. TikTok in Chinese engages in mass censorship (e.g. of Tibet culture, e.g. cultural genocide) and encourages idiocy/vandalism outside the Chinese market. Twitter (now "X") has other agenda or other methods. They are differently sinister.
We don't suppose our elected politicians (partly elected by Social Control Media interventions) want to deal with the issue properly; they use those platforms and they are also addicted to those "gamification" handles. While the "hoi polloi" is busy following sports, celebs and gossip that changes nothing companies like Meta (Facebook), X, and Bytedance (TikTok) are moving on with their global ambitions of global social engineering (in the political science sense). They brainwash the masses like a collective of zombies.
"The addiction is the biggest barrier," an associate has explained, "because addicts will say anything to continue their addiction(s)."
"When the addiction is at-scale, and voluntary at that, then the problem is far, far worse."
A lot of "modern" tech has actually done great harm to society. As noted in the last video, LLMs are one example (plagiarism and misinformation) and Social Control Media is another, working against society in tandem. The use of misinformation and disinformation has been made possible at scale. It spreads very easily and quickly in Social Control Media and that can be generated "in bulk" (which means many permutations that make it harder to detect and then demote) using LLMs.
Can we just abandon that false notion that modernity (or novelty) implies greater good? It does not. █
