The Internet Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I just found an article that related to this in News Wars and The Gateway Pundit, both conservative, far-right websites. Based on the article you shared, I can see the total bias in these articles.

MEATHEAD: Rob Reiner Thinks AI Driven Disinformation on Social Media is Worse Than Nuclear Weapons

The article is based on a single tweet . . .

Rob Reiner
@robreiner . Follow

Disinformation using AI through social media is insidious and existentially more destructive than nuclear weapons. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

So these articles were criticizing Reiner for the extreme comparison that fake news is worse then dropping nukes. They also brought up this boomer attitude about nuclear war, like it was wrong or bad.

While I can agree that Rob was being overly dramatic to associate the destruction of a nuclear explosion to disinformation, he was probably aware of the history of the internet and its true purpose, he was a part of that 60s generation and lived it. The connection is there and maybe Rob knows this.

Article quote from the original post of this thread illustrates the connection . . .

the internet actually began life as the ARPANET, a US Department of Defense project whose goal, according to the former director of DARPA, "was to exploit new computer technologies to meet the needs of military command and control against nuclear threats, achieve survivable control of US nuclear forces, and improve military tactical and management decision making."