"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”
#HenryFarrell, 2025
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;
https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/
@hrheingold
> Alison Gopnik on llms as
cultural tools
Intriguing, link please? I did some web searching and found various related stuff, but couldn't find an article just by Gopnik.
@hrheingold
FYI the article you link to has 3 coauthors (first author being Henry Farrell), and the full text can be found via this permalink;
@hrheingold
> I linked to Gopnik's image of the article because of the Science paywall
I'm not seeing a paywall at my end.
> That article has 3 authors
At the risk of splitting hairs, it's definitely 4; Farrell, Gopnik,
Cosma Shalizi, and James Evans. See the pdf on Farrell's homepage;
https://henryfarrell.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Science-Accepted-Version.pdf
> Gopnik had written about it solo
That's the one I was keen to read after you mentioned her, but I can't find a link to it on that Patreon page.
Strypey
Howard Rheingold