This world is getting dumber and dumber.
Ehhh…I dunno.
Go back 20 years and we had similar articles, just about the Web, because it was new to a lot of people then.
searches
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…/28397087.html
Internet killed my daughter
Were Simon and Natasha victims of the web?
Predators tell children how to kill themselves
And before that, I remember video games.
It happens periodically — something new shows up, and then you’ll have people concerned about any potential harm associated with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
A moral panic, also called a social panic, is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.[1][2][3] It is “the process of arousing social concern over an issue”,[4] usually elicited by moral entrepreneurs and sensational mass media coverage, and exacerbated by politicians and lawmakers.[1][4] Moral panic can give rise to new laws aimed at controlling the community.[5]
Stanley Cohen, who developed the term, states that moral panic happens when “a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests”.[6] While the issues identified may be real, the claims “exaggerate the seriousness, extent, typicality and/or inevitability of harm”.[7] Moral panics are now studied in sociology and criminology, media studies, and cultural studies.[2][8] It is often academically considered irrational (see Cohen’s model of moral panic, below).
Examples of moral panic include the belief in widespread abduction of children by predatory pedophiles[9][10][11] and belief in ritual abuse of women and children by Satanic cults.[12] Some moral panics can become embedded in standard political discourse,[2] which include concepts such as the Red Scare[13] and terrorism.[14]
Media technologies
Main article: Media panic
The advent of any new medium of communication produces anxieties among those who deem themselves as protectors of childhood and culture. Their fears are often based on a lack of knowledge as to the actual capacities or usage of the medium. Moralizing organizations, such as those motivated by religion, commonly advocate censorship, while parents remain concerned.[8][40][41]
According to media studies professor Kirsten Drotner:[42]
[E]very time a new mass medium has entered the social scene, it has spurred public debates on social and cultural norms, debates that serve to reflect, negotiate and possibly revise these very norms.… In some cases, debate of a new medium brings about – indeed changes into – heated, emotional reactions … what may be defined as a media panic.
Recent manifestations of this kind of development include cyberbullying and sexting.[8]
I’m not sure that we’re doing better than people in the past did on this sort of thing, but I’m not sure that we’re doing worse, either.
ch00f@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Basically the entire US economy, every employer, many schools, and half of the commercials on TV are telling us to use and trust AI.
Kid was already using the bot for advice on homework and relationships (two things that people are fucking encouraged to do depending on who you ask). The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice. And if it’s even capable of doing that, we all need to take a huuuuuuge step back.
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 1 hour ago
19 is not a 'kid'. Sorry of having to be that guy, but he was already an adult, a young adult at that.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
No, fuck not holding dumbfucks responsible for being dumb as fuck.
ch00f@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
Just read the article.