Idolatry is an age-old and well-warned danger. And it involves a dissolution of humanity that is obvious in artificial intelligence, but is present also in TikTok.
The controversial social media platform is up for a Supreme Court decision on whether to ban it in the United States. But TikTok regulation is more than just an antidote to pornography access and screen time: The app has the singular goal of convincing users to idolize fictional realities.
One could say that all social media have this goal, and that would be correct. The many mental and social harms of these platforms are by now common knowledge, but TikTok stands out as perhaps the most addictive and exploitative. It is by far more threatening and intentionally subversive of
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