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A Viking Funeral for Sydney the Chatbot, Meta’s Verified Experiment, Algorithms and Liability as Section 230 Takes Center Stage

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Is There a Scale of Control?

I think it's just a matter of we're dealing at the scale of billions of people, right? And so that's it's very hard to use a scalpel at that scale. None of this stuff actually works or functions without personal agency, like people are making the right decisions on an individual basis. Is that possible? Is that capable? How is that instilled? What are we doing in our society where we're feeling like people are less capable of doing that? I don't want to live in that world.

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