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A comment on Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025). Parent comment

Re:Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Frag... by lugu on Sunday February 08, 2026 @07:18PM (#46940023)
> With AI, the society will be more divided, more polarised, and less happy than before.

While I agree for less happy, I am not seeing AI chatbot been more divisive and polirised than social media in general. Am I missing something?

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Re:Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Frag... by zx8080 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @11:12PM (#46941502)
A personal information bubble for anyone. All deviations from reality are normalised with "hallucinations is OK for AI".

It's devisive as much as it can be.

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Re:Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Frag... by armchairhacker on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:06AM (#46943950)
As opposed to an information bubble with a small group of humans? It has less personalized hallucinations but more extreme and negative ones, which I think is worse. Ideally people would look at reliable sources and use critical thinking for information, but ChatGPT seems like a better conversation partner than the average Redditor of today (who's probably also a bot...but one trained on drama and negativity).
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