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The Machines Are Making Us Sick: How Ai manufacturers a nostalgia that never existed
Ghosts of 80s culture telling people to "come back" to 1985 sounds like something invented by a tech-savvy suicide cult
When an elder millennial or a Gen X-er in the 2020s daydreams about how wonderful it must have been to raise a family in the 1980s, they might picture the Griswolds in all their Reagan-era glory, maybe with slightly fewer death-defying hijinks and things of that nature. I suppose it was inevitable that artificial intelligence would accelerate the burning nostalgia that has delivered all-out fascism to the United States and other parts of the world in an age of democratic collapse via social media algorithm. These make-believe faces of Reagan-era youth, replete with all the minor mistakes of clumsy AI models trying to generate human beings, lure social media users back to a time most of them never experienced.
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