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The Growing Gap in the Age of Tech Giants and AI
Lately, I’ve found myself thinking about the incredible promise of technology and how it often contrasts sharply with its real-world impact. As a communication student diving into global political economy and digital labor, I’ve come across some striking examples of how AI and tech giants are reshaping inequality and how this gap keeps growing. Artificial…
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Your cloud dries up my river
Writing a post as long as this one requires four bottles of water for ChatGPT. The popular generative AI chatbot consumes 519 millilitres per every 100 words, according to a recent collaborative research by the Washington Post and the University of California. As thousands of people enter prompts into ChatGPT and other similar AI chatbots,…
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Our role as digital technology users in the global economy
If you are reading this, you have access to the internet and a device with a screen. Maybe you get a lot of information and entertainment through social media platforms. Maybe you’ve used services powered by AI, or have used AI tools yourself. Since you are reading this blog, you likely have at least…
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In a world of tech giants and social divides, is looking away still an option?
Hi, I’m Elia, and I’m excited to welcome you to this space. I’m here because I believe in confronting the injustices we see around us. In this blog, we’re not claiming to have any answers—in fact, it’s very clear we might not have any at all. But we can’t just sit back and look the…