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i wonder if you’re equally offended by a public figure hiring young people to ghost write for their social media accounts or their books etc
by coderatlarge 1mo ago
i wonder if you’re equally offended by a public figure hiring young people to ghost write for their social media accounts or their books etc
- otterley 1mo agoThe benefit and promise of social media, at least early on, was that it was supposed to be authentic - that when someone posted, it was really coming from them. Engagement was truly personal, at least for a little while. It still is for most. In the book-publishing context, ghost writers have to be credited, even if the attribution is in small print.
- account42 29d agoAre you implying that one should not be offended by that? It's commonly mocked when it becomes apparent.
- coderatlarge 29d agowell it’s widely understood that any large scale social media account is managed by a team and not the individual being represented and we seem broadly ok with that. what those teams produce is often vapid manipulative corporate bs which i don’t find any less offensive for it being typed by humans earning a salary as compared to tensors assembling copy via gpu. the current anti AI sentiment strikes me as a bit of a high-minded pose when the actual underlying behaviors have been in place for a while.