However, people do not make use of this knowledge, but instead react to input as if it were a traditional mass medium (TV, newspapers, magazines). This is even more destructive because it replaces journalism with randomness.

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    Making use of annas-archive, sci-hub, online courses, video lectures, etc. improves your knowledge.

    Making use of platforms with an attention-economy shrinks it.

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      Yes, that’s true, but AI, such as meta LLMs, definitely makes use of it—and not to expand human knowledge, but for profit and also for what you call attention-economy (they will and in fact already do base their propaganda machines on sites like Anna’s archive since they don’t have to pay a dime to train their LLMs from these (of course) very valuable sources)