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6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com Hello.
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This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Pippa.
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Whatever you think of social media,
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in less than a generation it has changed the internet.
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Facebook, Twitter and in the early days MySpace used to be places to post messages to friends friends
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or share photos of your breakfast.
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But with the rise of AI,
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the fun of connecting with friends changed into something much stranger,
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as Tristan and Asma, presenters of BBC World Service programme The Global Story, found out.
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Oh, what is this?
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I think it's a man who's supposed to look like Jesus.
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It's a man who looks a bit like...
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Who also looks like his dog.
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He's been AI'd, right?
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Has to be AI'd.
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He's holding his dog and his face looks like his dog,
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so he's half Jesus, half dog.
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A half-dog, half-Jesus photo is generated by AI and posted online.
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It's an example of how the use of AI in social media has evolved
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so much that today it's hard to know what's created by humans and what's not.
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In this episode, we'll discuss how social media is changing in the age of AI and,
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as usual, we'll learn some useful new words and phrases.
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And remember, you'll find all the vocabulary along with a transcript on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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But first, I have a question for you, Pippa.
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You mentioned MySpace as one of the earliest social media platforms,
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but the first electronic message was actually sent much earlier,
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in 1844, using a series of dots and dashes tapped out by hand on a telegraph wire.
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So what was this new form of communication called?
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Was it a semaphore, b dial-up, or c morse code?
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I think Morse code.
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OK, we'll find out the answer later.
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The introduction of AI has turned some users away from social media.
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Indeed, a recent report found that social media activity peaked in 2022 and has been going down ever since.
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Millennial and digital native Kyle Chaker is a writer specialising in social media.
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He spoke about the problem to Tristan Redmond for BBC World Service programme The Global Story.
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Okay, Carl, was there a moment for you when you felt like social media changed?
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Oh man, I mean, in 2015,
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2016, I think, in the United States,
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when Twitter became the hub of election discourse,
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it kind of shattered the illusion
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that the internet was a space you could go to just like have fun
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and express yourself and finds cool friends and discuss the latest cultural happenings.
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Kyle uses the informal expression, Oh man! an exclamation showing excitement or enthusiasm.
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He remembers the internet in 2016,
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when Twitter was full of angry political debate about the US elections.
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For Kyle, this shattered the illusion that the internet was fun.
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If something shatters your illusions,
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it destroys a false belief you hold,
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making you realise an unpleasant truth.
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Kyle thinks social media was friendlier before – an online space to make friends,
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have fun and discuss the latest cultural happenings.
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A cultural happening is an event that embodies the values and interests of a particular group at a particular time in history.
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For example, the hit television show Game of Thrones was a cultural happening for millennials in the 2010s.
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So, what's the future of social media?
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Will the amount of AI-generated content continue to grow?
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Here's Kyle Chaker again sharing his thoughts with BBC World Service's The Global Story.
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We see the large social networks and the tech behemoths leaning into generated content.
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And I think users don't actually want that.
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I think it's a novelty for now and people will drift away from it.
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So instead, I see people gravitating towards smaller online spaces,
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connecting more closely with individual voices like creator types,
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and just posting less in general.
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Kyle thinks the tech behemoths,
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meaning large and powerful companies, will continue pushing AI.
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However, many people want content which is more personal and meaningful.
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They think AI is a novelty,
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something which is new and unusual and therefore exciting,
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but which probably won't last.
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Instead, Kyle thinks people will gravitate towards smaller online communities.
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If you gravitate towards something,
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you are naturally drawn or attracted to it.
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Social media has changed fast and is still in motion.
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It's come a long way from the first electronic messages of 1844,
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which you mentioned in your question, Neil.
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So, did I get the correct answer?
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I asked what this new form of communication was and you said that it was C,
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Morse code, and that, Pippa, is the correct answer.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned,
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starting with the exclamation, oh man,
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used to show excitement or enthusiasm.
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To shatter an illusion is to destroy someone's misconceptions,
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causing them to realise an unpleasant reality.
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A cultural happening is an event that embodies the values and interests of a particular social group at a particular time.
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A behemoth is an extremely large and powerful company or organisation.
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A novelty is something which is new and unusual and therefore exciting.
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And finally, if you gravitate towards something,
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you are naturally attracted to it.
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Once again, our six minutes are up,
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but if you're still using the internet,
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head over to our website bbclearningenglish.com where you'll find a worksheet and quiz for this episode.
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See you again soon, but for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Contesto e Sfondo

Nel video di oggi, Neil e Pippa esplorano come i social media abbiano subito cambiamenti radicali nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale. La conversazione inizia con una riflessione su come piattaforme come Facebook, Twitter e MySpace siano evolute nel tempo, passando da luoghi di semplice interazione sociale a spazi complessi influenzati dall'AI. I conduttori analizzano anche l'impatto che queste trasformazioni hanno avuto sugli utenti, in particolare sulle generazioni più giovani, portando a un calo dell'attività sui social media.

Le 5 Frasi Chiave per la Comunicazione Quotidiana

  • Oh man! - Un'esclamazione di entusiasmo o sorpresa, utile per esprimere emozioni forti.
  • Half dog, half Jesus - Un'espressione descrittiva che evidenzia l'assurdità di alcune immagini create dall'AI.
  • Shattered the illusion - Un modo per dire che una credenza falsa è stata distrutta.
  • Changed the game - Usato per indicare che qualcosa ha cambiato radicalmente una situazione.
  • In the hub of - Significa essere al centro di un'attività o di una discussione.

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