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Hollywood has been creating historically inaccurate portrayals for over a hundred years. I'm really not seeing the harm in these shitty little vignettes. If any

Hollywood has been creating historically inaccurate portrayals for over a hundred years. I'm really not seeing the harm in these shitty little vignettes. If anything, it's more concerning that TikTok's algorithms are able to get people to give their attention to such poor quality content.

alephnerd 2y ago
> I'm really not seeing the harm in these shitty little vignettes Pompei and the Black Death aren't historical events that continue to evoke grievances today. But creating an AI generated recreation of the Nakba or Nanjing Massacre can evoke extreme reactions to this day, and actually instigate diplomatic fallout and even violence in the modern world. If you keep percolating and percolating such content, then it can complete shift narratives. Technology is inherently neutral - it's us humans who use technology for good and for bad - but moderation has simply not kept up the rate of change. > it's more concerning that TikTok's algorithms are able to get people to give their attention to such poor quality content People will continue watching what they want, and recommender algorithms will continue to recommend them as such. If recommender algorithms are not regulated, then this is the status quo that arises. On that front, statist countries like Singapore have better managed these problems, but they also pair it with permissive national security legislation.
- rsanek 2y ago
  > Technology is inherently neutral especially when it comes to media, Postman would pretty strongly disagree here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034
masswerk 2y ago
The problem is in economics and scale. Hollywood productions were pretty expensive, hence, there were few of them – and they could be tracked as known narratives. ("Ah, well, this is Ben Hur. We know this.") Gen-AI content is incredibly cheap and thus potentially ubiquitous, and has a real potential to become normalized in common imagination.

alephnerd 2y ago

> I'm really not seeing the harm in these shitty little vignettes Pompei and the Black Death aren't historical events that continue to evoke grievances today. But creating an AI generated recreation of the Nakba or Nanjing Massacre can evoke extreme reactions to this day, and actually instigate diplomatic fallout and even violence in the modern world. If you keep percolating and percolating such content, then it can complete shift narratives. Technology is inherently neutral - it's us humans who use technology for good and for bad - but moderation has simply not kept up the rate of change. > it's more concerning that TikTok's algorithms are able to get people to give their attention to such poor quality content People will continue watching what they want, and recommender algorithms will continue to recommend them as such. If recommender algorithms are not regulated, then this is the status quo that arises. On that front, statist countries like Singapore have better managed these problems, but they also pair it with permissive national security legislation.

rsanek 2y ago
> Technology is inherently neutral especially when it comes to media, Postman would pretty strongly disagree here. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034

masswerk 2y ago

The problem is in economics and scale. Hollywood productions were pretty expensive, hence, there were few of them – and they could be tracked as known narratives. ("Ah, well, this is Ben Hur. We know this.") Gen-AI content is incredibly cheap and thus potentially ubiquitous, and has a real potential to become normalized in common imagination.