Corey Doctrow coined the term “enshittification” - the way many online platforms lose their original shine / consumer focus and  instead becoming turgid cesspools whose aim is the monetising of eyeballs.

Recent advances in AI  only make this process worse; when automation collides with extraordinarily attention and content hungry business models.  Will the final result be a “dead internet”?

Prof Nicholas Carah Directs the UQ Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies, an organisation that addresses questions of power and ethics, industrial transformation, and the relationships between digital technologies and our cultural practices and expressions. 

He is ideally placed to speak to this issue and what might be done about it.  

Please join us at the usual venue on September 2nd to discuss a topic that affects us all.