Review of iHuman

iHuman (2019)
1/10
The usual establishment narrative, aka propaganda about propaganda
29 December 2020
Disappointed but not surprised that it was the usual nyt type scare propaganda narrative, the kind with zero self awareness and built upon a mountain of unspoken presumptions. Blaming polarization on social media, assuming that everyone would be ok with the neoliberal globalist agenda otherwise, that the cracks in the narrative haven't led to what we see now. As if the massive infrastructure of media and institutional programming had no part in division or the reaction against it.

What little content actually dealing with AI are the usual vague platitudes and speculations backed by a collage of server farm and random clip visuals, "science is cool" music video noise with very little substance. If you read through the script there wouldn't be much there.

There's the usual snippet of the "algorithmic fairness" talking head in denial as their A.I.'s inconveniently notice that diversity IS inequality. The excuse of claiming that policing would only be self reinforcing just isn't true. Just because some vocal vegans are secret meat eaters doesn't mean it is just as common the other way around, you can only reinforce what is really there.

The lack of insight is summed up by the absurdity of the cathedral holding every lever of influential power in society from education to the algorithms that run social media and the internet turning around and claiming that some facebook ads that were so influential no one can even cite an example were the cause of mass social strife. So the usual talking points of bit players like cambridge analytica and palantir are brought up when it's clear all these people have swallowed whole the story of Emmanuel Trumpenstein. There is no insight when the blind spot of all those involved is so clear.
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