Adam Oleksik

Different languages have different understandings of time and direction.

And the more you condense down into this like sort of Western centric view we got going on, you lose the color and the beauty of all these different ways we can look at the world.

You can't avoid it.

You simply cannot avoid it.

Now, I do think by being conscious about this, the more aware we are of what these platforms are doing to us, the more resistance we have.

This is a virus.

You are able to form your own kind of antibodies through media literacy.

And it goes so much beyond language.

I think language is the canary in the coal mine, that sort of proxy for greater cultural shifts that we can pay attention to.

because it tells us what's going on in society in that telling truth kind of way.

But I'm worried about political shifts.

I'm worried about social shifts.

ChatGPT has different political leanings in each language because it represents the values of those countries differently.

That's really concerning to me, that there's a direction that we are being trained to think.

When you interact with a platform like X, you've got to know that Elon Musk is artificially amplifying his tweets so he can go more viral.

When you interact with a chatbot like Grok, we also know that Elon Musk changes what the chatbot says so that we align with his picture of reality.

We need to know that so that we can maintain our reality.

Yeah.

And I also want to caveat, I do not think the responsibility should merely be on the consumer of media.

I'm simply pushing that right now because I think that's the best thing we can do in this current cultural moment where it doesn't seem like we have any power against the platforms.