Denying actors monetization opportunities will weaken the economic foundation of producing original information and continued political coverage and thereby the functioning of the public arena.
(2) By providing synopses instead of links, AI-enabled search interfaces monopolize attention rather than distributing it to actors that produce and invest in information production.
(1) AI-based synopses of topics, accounts, and concerns are subject to the mechanisms of a data-driven pull toward the mean. This threatens to weaken idiosyncrasies and specific cultural signals within the public arena.
Beyond the risk of generating factually incorrect answers, this has at least two important structural consequences:
Whereas querying a search engine returns a list of links to topically relevant sources, LLM-enabled search returns answers in text form, (...) meaning people are guided to AI-based synopses and accounts, not directly to sources and actors within the public arena.
In our article "Artificial Intelligence and the Public Arena" Ralph Schroeder and I discuss how this development leads to structural shifts within the public arena. academic.oup.com/ct/article/3...
Abstract. The public arena relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to ever greater degrees. Media structures hosting the public arena—such as Facebook, TikT
Yesterday's announcement by Google shows how tech companies are increasingly positioning generative AI as a tool for search. This has consequences for the public arena, news production, and political information. blog.google/products/sea...
We’re bringing AI Overviews to everyone in the U.S. and adding new gen AI experiences to take more of the legwork out of searching.
Talk of dangers of digital disinformation abounds. In a new research seminar, we look at how social science can help to divide fact from fiction. andreasjungherr.net/2024/04/15/n...
For this summer semester, I designed a new research seminar on misinformation, disinformation and other digital fakery. Course Description: Threats of misinformation, disinformation, and other digital fakery are prominent in academic and public discourse. News media feature examples of digital…
The full syllabus is here: andreasjungherr.net/wp-content/u...