Is There Any Hope for the Internet?

AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

The rise of ChatGPT and its rivals is undermining the economic bargain of the internet

Is There Any Hope For The Internet?

Is the internet’s place in human history cemented as a harbinger of despair? Or is there still hope for an internet that supports collective flourishing? The post Is There Any Hope For The Internet? appeared first on Study Finds.

Is there any hope for the internet?

Hate and mental illness fester online because love and healing seem to be incompatible with profits. Ihor Lukianenko/iStock via Getty ImagesIn 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: New Visions,” she lamented “the lack of an ongoing public discussion … about the practice of love in our culture and in our lives.” Back then, the internet was at a crossroads. The dot-com crash had bank…

Is there any hope for the Internet?

Over a few decades, the Internet has merged with our bodies as smartphones and mined our personalities via algorithms that know us more intimately than some closest friends. It has even constructed a secondary world.

Is there any hope for the internet?

by Aarushi Bhandari, Davidson College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In 2001, social theorist bell hooks warned about the dangers of a loveless zeitgeist. In “All About Love: New Visions,” she lamented “the lack of an ongoing public discussion … about the practice of love in our culture and in our lives.” Back then, the internet was at a crossroads. The dot-com crash had bankrupted many early inte…