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Digital Sugar: Consequences of unethical recommender systems

Introduction We are spending more and more time online. The average internet user spends over 2 hours on social networking platforms daily. These platforms are powered by recommendation systems, complex algorithms that use machine learning to determine what content should be shown to the user based on their personal data and usage history. In the […]

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The Era of Polarization: How Social Media’s Hidden Algorithms are Tearing Society Apart

Have you ever heard the phrase “we are what we eat”? The truth is that this saying does not only apply to the physical world but also to our digital lives. Every day, we feed our brains with the content that we consume online, particularly on social media. Our reality is constantly being shaped by […]

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Power & Democracy

Social media is not your living room, its a public square governed by AI

Today’s social media is saturated with internet bots, cyberbullying, and fake news which are intricately tied to real-world consequences. With artificial intelligence (AI) largely governing interactions on these platforms, the influence of social media on politics, human interactions and societal perspectives has become much more apparent, especially in causing a public divide. To combat this, […]

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Power & Democracy

The Shadow Players of Politics: AI, LLMs, and the Rise of Digital Propaganda

In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president to the USA. Many media outlets discussed his extreme political views, but rarely discussed his strategy to win the vote. Were Americans just bigoted? Did Trump rig the elections? Was Trump just charismatic? Or maybe his views are just right!.. I beg to differ. While all can be […]

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AI in Social Media Causes Mental Health Issues

We have all experienced it at one time or another, when we briefly needed to check something on our phone, opened our favorite app out of curiosity and got caught by an AI algorithm. Before you know it, you are an hour away, completely distracted from your original purpose for which you grabbed your phone in the first place. As this is a persistent problem these days, we will discuss the negative effects of AI in social media on one’s mental health in this article.

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A(I)ddiction: How AI algorithms can turn us into addicts

Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field that is transforming our world in profound ways. While AI has the potential to improve many aspects of our lives, the increasing use also raises both ethical and societal questions about the negative impact of AI. In the context of social media and casino’s, AI can […]

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The Invisible Pandemic: How AI in social media is diminishing the mental health of our children

“Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls” This is what the caption reads of an article in the Wall Street Journal which shocked the world in September of last year. In the article, internal research by Facebook (the parent company of Instagram) reveals that their social media app makes body image issues worse for […]

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Addicted to the virtual world? Why you should consider a digital diet

During a livestream on October 28th 2021, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp among others had rebranded itself to Meta. He described the new company vision as a focus to bring the so-called “metaverse” to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. This development is understood […]

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Power & Democracy

Artificial Intelligence And The End Of Freedom

Introduction Our society has arrived at one of the most important points in human history. The point where it is estimated that supercomputers will soon surpass human capabilities in almost all areas. Also at this point, the amount of data we produce doubles every year. This means that the amount of data we used in […]

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Why it’s time to take a break

While there are many upsides to the use of social media, it can also be disastrous to our mental, physical, intellectual and emotional health. Maybe it’s time to take a break?

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