AI Tools Bug Out Because the Internet Can Never Forget [Rose-Colored Glasses]
The internet never forgets.
That famous meme dates to at least the early 2000s. The digital internet acts as a more permanent version of what philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs deemed as the “collective memory” in his book of the same name almost 100 years ago. He concludes societies have a collective memory that depends on the framework within which they exist.
Put simply: In groups, both individual and group memories exist. I experience this when a group of my childhood friends remembers me doing things I haven’t the foggiest recollection of doing.
For better and worse, the internet has become society’s collective memory. Unlike a disagreement between friends arising over whose memory is more fallible, the internet doesn’t forget.