Social media is becoming antisocial. There's a movement to begin replacing human interaction with artificial intelligence.

Now, on another topic, something major has happened. The State Department's counter foreign information, manipulation, and interference agency has been dismantled.

This was a censorship branch of government. I'll be talking about why ending this

matters. And also speaking of information, there's a new censorship and propaganda focused on

Wikipedia. And part of this has led Elon Musk to launch his own alternative to the information

site called Grockpedia. And now there are allegations that systems are trying to suppress

GROCpedia. Now, I'll be going to these topics a lot more today. I'm the Epic Times Senior

Investigator reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

The social element of social media, the thing that kind of like defines what social media is, is coming to an end. People just don't interact like they used to. And with this, well, platforms are saying, how do we increase human interaction? And they say, hey, why don't we use AI for it?

Have humans interact with non-humans?

With this AI content in a smaller pool of voices basically is starting to dominate the entire internet.

And there's also a movement that can be replacing human interaction with artificial intelligence.

They want to have you talking to robots, not people.

Now, the Atlantic said this.

He said, there's no question they were becoming less and less social.

People have sunk into their phones, enticed into endless, mindless engagement on social media.

Over the past 15 years, face-to-face socialization has declined precipitously.

The 921 friends, I've accumulated, this person says, on Facebook, I've always known, and not really friends are not really friends at all.

Now, the man who put his little scorecard in my life was

essentially agreeing. And it says this, Zuckerberg of Meda, however, was not admitting a failure.

He was pointing toward a new opportunity. It says in Mark Anderson's influential 2023 treaties, the techno-optimist manifesto, which is, this is the big thing because the techno-optimist manifesto basically forms the future of the internet. A lot of these guys are pointing towards. It says the venture capitalist wrote, we believe there is no material problem,

whether it can be created by nature or by technology

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