The context is, the person called Tyrena is an editor for a major intergalactic publisher. She's talking to an author about his sophomore effort, which has flopped. Transline is the publisher. And the TechnoCore, as you can guess from the image, is basically a collective of AIs (this is not expanded upon in the book, at least as far as I've gotten). And fatline is basically "interstellar broadband". I think the Expanse books/series uses similar terms, for communications that are sent far and wide, as opposed to privately (called "tight beam" or the like).
Amazing how much of this is relevant to 2026, 37 years after this was published.
I propose we train AI on films (somehow, ethically) and get its opinion on movies, and see if we agree or disagree. What does ChatGPT think of Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence? What does it think of Terminator 2: Judgment Day? Bicentennial Man? Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die? Or even films that are not about AI (or robots) going too far? I wonder if we would, in fact, disagree with AI's "opinions" about film or art. I would sure as shit hope so.
Yo, the other day some news corp listed a fake poll conducted instead by a company that intentionally uses ai to guess how people feel.
These fucking insulated people are taking a machine's word over people's. We are so fucked
That's not new. News sources have been polling men to find out how women feel for ages.
Oh, I guess it's fine then
As long as it's a male AI then it should be fine.
That's still useful information to know how men feel, even if it's problematic. "Polling" algorithms is entirely fucking useless.
This wasn't a fluke or an isolated incident. Qualtrics, one of the leading survey panel providers, is openly trying to normalize replacing actual survey responses and human voices with their own synthetic data.