Interesting experiment that shows emergent dysfunctional characteristics in simulated social networks
"Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social #Simulation"
#echochambers
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Gizmodo: Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War. “A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands put AI chatbots in a simple social media structure to see how they interacted with each other and found that, even without the invisible hand of the algorithm, they tend to organize themselves based on […]
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500 AI Bots Formed Echo Chambers in Days
The Fediverse, a network of independently run servers using the ActivityPub protocol, is #segmented by #serverblocks.
These #blocks, often based on imported #blocklists, create #echochambers and hinder message threads.
While #decentralisation is a goal, the Fediverse’s current state, with heavy-handed #moderation and #serverblocking, undermines this principle.
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-broken-fediverse?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
battlepenguin.comThe Broken Fediverse When Elon Musk originally bought Twitter, a number of people moved over to Mastodon. There were a lot of misunderstandings around how Mastodon works....
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@Greengordon @dyckron just like human narratives do in their #echochambers
λP(θ|y)⁂⧖⏚} learn-languages-world-life @stphrolland.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gyStudy in French, destructuring the "anti-covid-vaccine" language used by the #farright #echochambers
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:psrllnuhypzsvmufn5gwqobo/post/3lnvnpcr2lc2v
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What a good idea, especially for anyone on social media. Let's develop our listening, comprehension, debating, and empathy skills. Here are free resources provided by UCL to do that: the "Disagreeing Well" series.
Echo chambers aren't useful or healthy in the long run, as we're seeing in global politics right now.
We need to talk to each other in the right way to make progress and make the world a better place.
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Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization. “It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps. That’s largely a result of these platforms’ design, as the algorithms driving them direct users to like-minded peers. This […]
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How to Avoid Outrage Fatigue & Tune In without Burning Out
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/how-to-avoid-outrage-fatigue-and-tune-in-without-burning-out/
Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949277
Comment: for more nuanced understanding read
2019: Communicating w. Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113437776461706493
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498551342/Communicating-with-Memes-Consequences-in-Post-truth-Civilization
#SocialMedia #rhetoric #EchoChambers #polarization #memes #epistemology
#Trump #GOP #CultureWars #fascism
Scientific American · How to Avoid Outrage Fatigue and Tune In without Burning Out
Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy Debate https://healthydebate.ca/2023/08/topic/bothsidesism-scientific-consensus-matters/ “While the issue of #falsebalance is usually linked to how journalists represent topics, false balance is increasingly driven by #socialmedia #echochambers, the fragmentation of the news media and the ideologically motivated embrace of fringe ideas. Too often this has allowed a small cohort of vocal contrarians to have an outsized impact on public policy and public perceptions.”
Healthy Debate · Is bothsidesism killing us? (And why scientific consensus matters) - Healthy DebateOur information ecosystem has become a massive false-balance machine. We need to correct bothsideism and misinformation.
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Trump abruptly cancels NIH meetings, upending scientific research
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/uncertainy-fear-and-panic-abruptly-cancels-nih-meetings-upending-scientific-research
* U.S. fed. science agencies directed to cancel all scheduled meetings
* effect. suspends NIH research grants
Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking -- Carl Sagan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113867027412933034
#NIH #USpol #Trump #fascism #disinformation #censorship #antiabortion
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#epistemology #CriticalThinking
#PostTruthism #EchoChambers #ReflectionChambers #dogmaticism
Though I was aware of how algorithms work, I bought into the belief that there was no way the Harris campaign could fail. There was too much on the line and at stake, and how could so many experts in my feed be wrong?
https://buff.ly/4gH57Aa
Prism & Pen · How this Gay Government Agent’s Social Media Use Led to Disconnection
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Yeah, what they don't realize is: That is the way #echochambers are born.
#Defederate with this, defederate with that.
Imagine that user also blocking everyone except themselves? Then they'll only be able to listen to themself 
Overcoming online echo chambers requires institutional and individual commitment #socialmedia #echochambers #ArtificialIntelligence #disinformation
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/online-echo-chambers/
Policy OptionsOvercoming online echo chambers requires institutional and individual commitmentPolitics have always made it hard to accept facts and opinions that challenge our preexisting beliefs. Artificial intelligence algorithms make it even worse.
Why is David Speers all-in on the #Murdoch driven #SocialMedia ban?
Murdoch's brainwashed Speers that Social Media is evil and Murdoch is pure.
2022: Speers caught on a hot mic on #insiders (via SquizzSTK).
“#Complexity makes us feel stupid, so we gravitate toward anyone who can package the #chaos of the world into something digestible, even if that something is completely wrong.”
—Joan Westenberg
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/dont-confuse-volume-with-truth/
Westenberg · Don’t Confuse Volume with Truth
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@rwg for me: I don’t want to be #googled again, where they start with #donoevil, wind you into a myriad of useful but interconnected apps that you come to rely on, go public, become beholding to shareholders, reduce functionality, charge for things they promised would be free forever, have zero support, reenforce #echochambers, (I could list problems all day) and no easy way to get out.
Never again.
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Who should be guiding the Democrats over the next four years? Maya Contreras writes for @damemagazine about how it’s time to listen to experts in disinformation, historians and economists. “We must center the voices who’ve consistently shown up for the party, promote new leaders that have a proven track record of winning elections, and understand that the consultants who knew how to win elections in the 1990s don’t understand how elections are won in the current environment,” Contreras writes. “We’ll need a plan to counter the right-wing echo chamber with our own robust media. That won’t be easy or cheap.”
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/11/20/democrats-policies-drowned-out/
Dame Magazine - · Democrats’ Policies Help Americans. The Right Wing Echo-Chamber Drowned Them Out - Dame MagazineI’ve had a job since I was 14 years old. I’ve spent most of it working in the service industry. I have always been part of the working class here in America. The characteristics of the working class that apply to me are: food and beverage service, low to moderate income, and tipped hourly wages.
The problem with this website is that I don't really get to hear from people who disagree with me on whether I should be punched in the face or have shit smeared on my walls. #echochambers