Récemment, une étude du MIT a montré comment certains utilisateurs manipulent les bots afin qu’ils leur livrent des réponses qui leur conviennent. Pour les auteurs de l’étude, ce phénomène risque de créer des « chambres d’écho affectives » potentiellement très addictives.
Le Bon Coin, Candy Crush, Vinted, Grindr… Des données localisées issues d’applications populaires apparaissent dans un échantillon de données obtenu et analysé par « Le Monde » et ses partenaires. Elles permettent de suivre à la trace les habitudes et déplacements des utilisateurs.
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Thoughts on the search for meaning and reclaiming our attention.
“We no longer live in the attention economy; we live in the addiction economy. The dopamine economy. The economy of instant gratification. Every day, it's a frantic race to capture what has become our most precious resource: our brain's time. We're bombarded with notifications, alerts, and endless content. Everything is designed to hook us, to pull us back again and again, for another hit of pleasure.”
“This is the great carousel of the 21st century. Scroll. Click. Like. Replay. A brief rush of euphoria, quickly replaced by another craving. A cycle of consumption that never truly satisfies. By the end of the day, all that's left is emptiness.”
“We are drowning in an endless stream of information, and paradoxically, it's no longer the abundance that's the issue—it's discernment.”
“And that’s the key difference: AI calculates, humans intuit. Where machines rely on algorithms, we notice the subtleties—the unspoken cues, gut feelings, and instinctive decisions that slip through the cracks of code. It's in these finer details that our true uniqueness lies.”
“We may be at a turning point—a moment where true wealth is no longer measured by how much attention we can capture or how much dopamine we can generate by the minute, but by our ability to appreciate, understand, and create meaning.”
Entre la multiplication des marques et la complexité de la billetterie, l’ouverture à la concurrence rend le paysage ferroviaire « kafkaïen », dénoncent les usagers.
Des clients vissés à leur téléphone. C'est le genre de scène qu'Olivier et Sandra Holtzmann, patrons du Mamama bistrot à Rothau, ne veulent plus voir. Alors, en Septembre 2023, ils ont pris une décision drastique.
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