@Samantharhill And she knew whereof she clearly speaks.
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Copy of tweet here: Fleeing Paris, Benjamin entrusted the Angelus Novus print to Georges Bataille for safekeeping. He handed his 'Theses on the Concept of History' to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles, where she was in hiding, having already escaped the Gestapo in Germany and an internment camp in France. “For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis VI, ‘Theses on the Concept of History’
@johnrobb 1/ So, Arendt: "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." On that note, are you tracking Danish social scientists, of late?
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Will AI make all information so untrustworthy that nobody will believe anything?...So far, the impact of this new capability has been relatively minor since the tools are still very new. That will change quickly...As safeguards and tools mature, we’ll increasingly find that the BIG problem with deepfakes isn’t proving it false; it’s that many people _don’t_care_ if the deepmedia they experience is accurate or not… ~ @johnrobb 5/12/23