First off, thank you for reading. Sometimes I forget that everyday people don't normally see everything industry eCommerce/Content Managers get exposed to, so it's been interesting getting feedback on this piece. It's refreshing and odd hearing the perspective of people who aren't really in this space and how all of this disruptive, new technology is impacting them.
I wouldn't say it's totally normal for me, moreso it's that I'm very comfortable with... the discomfort, you could say. Very much grew up on the internet, and the entire extent of my adult life so far has been spent on the backend of your favorite online shopping platforms and social media apps making products sell to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Have had many a moral conflict and mental breakdown about knowing too much on how algorithms run our digital world and where they're going because of the work I do, and still continue to have a hard time fully accepting it. Learning and writing about AI is simply how I cope with our strange new world.
I've come to accept that I'd rather know what's going on and be loud while advocating for an ethical, equitable society in the midst of our technological development-- and how it can promote more accessibility for all-- than be completely in the dark at the whim of forces that are essentially programmed to be digital gods. There's been enough damage done by people not knowing how they're being manipulated on the daily by the Big 6 tech companies.