2026 prediction:
“AI” will become the new “bot.”
A word used to demean, discredit, and dismiss books, videos, posts, and studies—without evidence.
When everything is accused of being AI, the term loses meaning.
And in that vacuum, genuinely AI-generated work quietly becomes normalized.
Language matters. We’re burning this one down fast.
#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #AIethics #DigitalDiscourse #OnlineCulture
🎉 Oh joy, another tech genius move: banning teens from chatbots because, you know, that's where all the real danger is! 🙄 Meanwhile, adults will continue their deep, meaningful conversations with AI about how to reboot their routers. 🤖💬
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/technology/characterai-underage-users.html #technews #AIethics #chatbotban #teenprotection #digitaldiscourse #HackerNews #ngated
📣 After an initial hiccup 😅 it really IS out!
New to #CorpusTools, TruthScraper is a browser extension that lets you build a corpus of posts from Truth Social.
More info & download links 👉 https://fmoncomble.github.io/truthscraper/
Bug reports and feature requests welcome!
Online platforms risk becoming ideological echo chambers that undermine meaningful dialogue
#Tech #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Decentralization #ElonMusk #EchoChambers #PoliticalPolarization #Democracy #X #Twitter #DigitalDiscourse #OnlinePlatforms #Polarization
https://the-14.com/online-platforms-risk-becoming-ideological-echo-chambers-that-undermine-meaningful-dialogue/
If you’re into linguisticy things, especially digital language, social media discourse, persuasive contexts… don’t miss out on our FREE, FULLY ONLINE # conferences “Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2”
Reg link & more info https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Language-and-Persuasion-2/
You can watch the video presentations right now, and the live Q&A will be 18-19 November
#linguistics #persuasion #digitaldiscourse
