Peak Capitalism: burning carbon to generate fake avatars to drive engagement to keep people on a platform, to view more ads to scrounge more revenue.

The more we choose to engage with the #Metaverse, the less capable we are of reckoning with our own human, messy, analogue reality.

#ByeMamaLiv

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/instagram-users-discover-old-ai-powered-characters-instantly-revile-them