Tag: instagram
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Should Christians Harness Generative AI Chatbots As A Force For Good?

Hard questions following Pat Gelsinger’s keynote at CCU, his company Gloo, his use of the tool trope, and whether Christians are forming an idolatrous trust in generative AI chatbots.
Doug Smith
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Instagram Teen Accounts: Wolves Targeting the Young Sheep

Meta, parent company of Instagram & Facebook, announced their new “Teen Accounts” today. The propaganda on that page is written to comfort parents by assuring us that they’ve heard the criticisms of Jonathan Haidt and the U.S. Surgeon General, they read the bad press, and they’re taking steps to avoid breaking the mental health of…
Doug Smith
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Does Social Media Help or Hinder Discipleship? Responding to the Brady Shearer Critique

This past week, the rock-star digital media strategist Brady Shearer published a YouTube critique of my interview with Preston Sprinkle. He has 54k Instagram followers, 97k TikTok followers, and 134k YouTube subscribers. He’s super-smart and well-spoken. I’m grateful for a dialog with someone so accomplished. This is an in-depth and important conversation, so it’s long.…
Doug Smith
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Social Media Is Free, But …
Then we freely give back: Our time Our attention Our ideas Our photos, videos Everything we like A diary of our whole lives Unlimited permission to data mine everything we share Our relationships Our future And, because we’re all doing this, they play us against each other. We distract each other, while they keep cashing…