Pitch for a new Star Trek series: Let's get an AI to mash together every single tired old sci-fi cliché we can find, except for the ones associated with Star Trek.
I checked your profile to see if all your posts were as stupid as this one and was quite impressed. It's a constant stream of rage, hate, Trump, Epstein, WWIII, death camp, MAGA, pedophiles, [deleted by mod], China, Doomerism, don't be a pussy, reddit, murder, evil. I hope this is just your grimdark shitlord alt and not your whole personality.
Some of them are probably insecure about their own limitations and find pleasure in mocking someone who knows a little less than they do. On the other hand there may also be, among the crowd, those who genuinely found your mistake to be an unusually funny one.
Social media takes hundreds of different forms (including e.g. Lemmy) and any study pretending that they're all the same is useless — unless you can simply replace "social media" with "Facebook", "TikTok", or whatever they're actually about.
For example the first of the studies linked above finds that using "Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram" more than they normally would makes people depressed, and the second finds that an unspecified mix of whatever people normally do that they think of as "social media" did not. Those findings do not contradict each other and do not represent a meaningful controversy.
Politically it's a controversy, or a tangled mess of controversies. Scientifically it's just a complete mystery that will — at the speed of science — take decades to unravel. With any luck all the findings about fucking Facebook and Twitter will be obsolete much sooner than that because at some point the enshittification will finally get so bad that people come to their senses and stop using them. The free-world versions of social media, such as the fediverse, continue to get better and will win in the long run.
The technology they've come up with sort of works, some of the time, and can make for an impressive demo if you ignore its failings. If you suspend all disbelief and assume that because computers have learned this one new trick they'll soon be smart enough to magically transform themselves into hyperintelligent AGI monsters straight out of science fiction, if you learn to really believe it, you can convince a lot of people that you might be right. Nobody can prove that it won't happen, therefore it's inevitable. Therefore it is existentially important for the future of humanity and it only makes sense to bet the entire economy on it right away without hesitation.
How else is Science going to pay the rent? They keep raising it. People ask a lot from Science, and to be fair it's always come through for us in the past, but these days Science is working two jobs just to get by. Science hasn't even had time to relax and play Crysis since last August.
Huh. I'll have to give Lower Decks a chance; it's the only one with the name Kurtzman attached that I haven't yet watched and been disappointed by.