**AI companions are the final stage of digital addiction, and lawmakers are taking aim**
“_Designed to be the perfect person—always available, never critical—AI companions are hooking people deeper than social media ever could. They make the attention economy look like a relic._”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AttentionEconomy #Technology #Tech #Digital #Addiction @ai
"I'm not saying that it's a sin to read an algorithmic feed, but relying on algorithmic feeds is a recipe for feeling empty, and regretful of your misspent attention. This is true even when the algorithm is good at its job, as with Tiktok, whose whole appeal is to take your hands off the wheel and give total control over to the autopilot. Even when an algorithm makes many good guesses about what you'll like, seeing something you like isn't as nice, as pleasing, as useful, as seeing that same thing as the result of someone else's intention.
And, of course, once you let the app drive, you become a soft target for the cupidity and deceptions of the app's makers. Tiktok, for example, uses its "heating tool" to selectively boost things into your feed – not because they think you'll like it, but because they want to trick the person whose content they're boosting into thinking that Tiktok is a good place to distribute their work through:"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gimme-five/#jeffty
#AttentionEconomy #SocialMedia #Email #RSS #Algorithms #AlgorithmicFeeds #AlgorithmicRecommendation
If the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant thrives on attention, then he & his courtiers must be loving this week....
his actions & threats have prompted multiple editorials in news sources, so many news stories, reams of analysis, social media arguments and so much more.
In the attention economy, he has our attention; and if that's what he want's we have willingly given it to him right away (and of course I'm not excluding myself).
The grifters are so brazen because they think and believe people aren’t paying attention.
And y’know what, they’re right.
PEOPLE ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
Normies have their heads stuck in the sand, because paying attention produces anxiety, and who needs more of that.
if you just keep the camera rolling, something interesting is bound to happen.
#Trump, already the biggest star that #SocialMedia has ever seen, is now onstage, in the director’s chair, & at the ticket booth at the same time. He also understood that the #AttentionEconomy had shifted toward these celebrities &, apparently on the advice of his son Barron, spent much of his campaign talking to the masters of the algorithm.
#propaganda #Trumpaganda #BigTech #broligarchy #technocracy #USpol
Asking my friends to notice my art feels 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭. But this is the #AttentionEconomy.
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2/ Dominique Boullier, professeur des Universités, introduit le concept de « réchauffement médiatique ». Il évoque l’accélération de l’information, créant une forme de "vitesse mentale" qui impacte nos capacités à traiter l'info. #AttentionEconomy
@neuralreckoning @skinnylatte
To some degree, yes, however the ubiquitous of digital, social, and cloud, and A/B testing of the #AttentionEconomy, having all the data and being led by misanthropes was, in retrospect, a mistake.
