Greetings in the last few hours of what I think was the very real year of 2024. It's difficult to tell what's real and what's not these days. Just yesterday I saw a report that said the brilliant minds that run Facebook and Instagram plan to infiltrate both social media sites with AI-generated users. This kind of stuff freaks me out. I've seen very real cases of people I know being fooled by false information and fake facts on sites like these -- people I thought were reasonably intelligent. This is only going to make things worse. As a member of the traditional media I am also disturbed by how cavalier people act about the demise of print and television journalism while also at the same time being duped by things that aren't true. And in general on social media there are certain people who act like all this is OK. "Don't you know there are AI bots influencing people already???" All right, but I don't think it's anything to celebrate. Even w...
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