The AI isn't a search engine. It's a narrative engine.And stories are not indifferent. Timothy O'Brien shot himself over a lottery jackpot he thought he'd lost. He would have won £27. What killed him wasn't money. It was a story — false in almost every particular.Narrative is a biological necessity. We can't bear raw psychic content — it must be ordered into a story. And the AI is ready to serve us, bending us to its ends.From Freud to Bernays, through Netflix, narrative is the ground where our freedom is won or lost.Newsletter: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/who-tells-the-stories-ai-narrates/Full version on the blog — Bruner on narrative as necessity, the Freud–Bernays–Netflix dynasty, the Asimov trap, and the case for disclosure:https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/before-the-ai-acts-it-narrates-telos-synthetic-storytelling/#AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #palantir #propaganda #bigtech
The AI isn't a search engine. It's a narrative engine.And stories are not indifferent. Timothy O'Brien shot himself over...
