We are still in the growing pains stage of that democratization IMO. Media literacy hasn’t quite kept up so we’re worshiping unqualified nobodies because that’s what’s available. Real expertise and academic authority hasn’t really had much incentive to move to social media until very recently because old media and walled gardens are still lucrative. It will hit an equilibrium eventually though, and not just with the quality of content available, but people will learn to navigate misinformation better.
I know people really hate AI around here, but one of the things it’s doing is forcing us to re-learn some things about information chain of custody social media broke over the past decade.
We are still in the growing pains stage of that democratization IMO. Media literacy hasn’t quite kept up so we’re worshiping unqualified nobodies because that’s what’s available. Real expertise and academic authority hasn’t really had much incentive to move to social media until very recently because old media and walled gardens are still lucrative. It will hit an equilibrium eventually though, and not just with the quality of content available, but people will learn to navigate misinformation better.
I know people really hate AI around here, but one of the things it’s doing is forcing us to re-learn some things about information chain of custody social media broke over the past decade.