Seymour addresses one of my favorite topics of discussion, “What if information is like sugar?” We can see from all ages of life the addiction that technology carries. It is a quick attention grabber, and there are so many sources of information that the pleasure from viewing this media is continual. In restaurants you see toddlers glued to the screen, completely ignoring their meal. The parents know that the content will keep their baby occupied so that they can enjoy physical time together. This seems backwards to me; due to the fact children are still trainable. However, with this wrongful training, their minds have become habitual to the act of viewing the screen. Moving away from babies, adults are confronted with this problem every day. You open up Microsoft Edge and are vulnerable to the plethora of news articles posted on their home page. Some of these articles are horrifying, but with information overload, it is nothing we haven’t seen before. We scroll on TikTok for hours because each video is different. We have a chance to immediately eliminate any choices we don’t see fit. With AI involved, we are able to sort through thousands of videos and article information in milliseconds. In ‘AI Is Coming for Culture, Rothman describes how he speaks to AI for the daily world news with him doing just this. The downside of this comes from the notion of “The Twittering Machine is a furnace of meaning”, by Seymour. These social media outlets have capabilities to change the way we consume and understand information. The problem of information overload is tied into this because we get accustomed to certain beliefs and run with whatever is given to us. As a society, we rarely see the need to fact-check political or news sources. AI will create the news display in its own image, what it sees important, or maybe what it thinks you view as important. Over time, this will just become more easily disguised and fictitious. Therefore, it is important to consider the reasons listed when confronting reality with AI.