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McLuhan's Media Laws Applied to AI: Extension, Obsolescence, and Deception

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Marshall McLuhan's Laws of Media suggest that every medium extends a human property, obsolesces a previous one, retrieves an older medium, and reverses its properties at its limits. Applying these laws to AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), it's argued that they extend human labor, obsolesce basic skill development, retrieve the function of an ancient oracle, and risk reversing into widespread deception. AI

IMPACT Suggests AI and LLMs may lead to a decline in fundamental skills and potentially widespread deception, framing AI's impact through a historical media theory lens.

RANK_REASON The item applies an existing theoretical framework (McLuhan's Laws of Media) to a contemporary topic (AI/LLMs) to offer an opinionated perspective.

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McLuhan's Media Laws Applied to AI: Extension, Obsolescence, and Deception

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    McLuhan's Laws of Media: every medium — *extends a human property, *obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good), *retrieves a much older med

    McLuhan's Laws of Media: every medium — *extends a human property, *obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good), *retrieves a much older medium, & *reverses its properties when pushed to its limits GPT/LLM aka # AI extend our labour, obsolesce basic skills dev…

    LINKS cbc.ca/…/16244736-ai-delphic-oracle cbc.ca/…/1-23-

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