It's one of the things that's disincentivizing me from, like, wanting to keep making art because i'm just like, I've completely lost control of the narrative.'
'I feel like the public perception of me has gotten so distorted that I find it kind of disturbing. If my thoughts are wrong, this is one situation where the stakes are high,' she said 'I do have a lot of thoughts on the matter. She stopped short of criticizing her ex-beau's purchase of the platform. In a different segment, the singer-songwriter and producer suggested that her fame has gotten out of control. 'People are just, like, misunderstanding what the other people are saying.' 'There's so many different dialects of Chinese, there are now becoming different dialects of English, like I am realizing, like, there are people who are saying the exact same things but they're using completely different verbiage and we're, like, punishing each other for not using the correct verbiage. 'I think we used to exist in a mono-culture, like before social media and stuff, like we kind of all got fed the same thing, so we were all speaking the same cultural language, but I think recently, one of the things that we aren't diagnosing properly enough with social media is that there's different dialects,' she said. She did, however, describe having multiple burner Twitter accounts to try out different viewpoints. If my thoughts are wrong, this is one situation where the stakes are high,' she said. She briefly slammed Twitter for its effect on 'public mental health,' but stopped short of criticizing her ex-beau's purchase of the platform. 'I think we can fix a lot of our problems more easily with technology than with, you know, fighting the powers that be.' 'One of the things that's happening is that, like, it's alienating people from wanting to care about technology,' she said. 'I'm just a random indie musician, but I just got dragged into geopolitical matters and financial - like the stock market and s***'
The pair's high profile relationship thrust her into the spotlight in unwanted ways, she said on Lex Fridman's podcast. She said it was important to focus on 'undoing the bad energy surrounding the emergence of Silicon Valley.'īut too much of a negative focus on the 'technocracy boom' could have consequences, she added. Maim' singer touched on everything from fame to technology to the future of the human species, with Grimes saying that she believes humans have entered a new phase of existence properly labeled 'homo techno.' Over the course of two hours, he and the 'Kill V. The podcast hosts 'conversations about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power,' according to its website.įridman, 35, has been a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2015, focusing on 'human-centered AI, especially in the context of autonomous vehicles.' She appeared on the 'Lex Fridman Podcast' in an interview published Friday. In March, Grimes, 34, tweeted that she and Musk, 50, had broken up, but that he remains her 'best friend and the love of my life.'
Some Twitter employees and users argue that Musk, worth a reported $246.2 billion, may simultaneously stifle free speech from critics and give voice to dangerous ideas 'Due to my proximity to the current dramas, I honestly feel that I should not have opinions about this because, if Elon ends up getting Twitter, that is being the arbiter of truth or public discussion. That is a responsibility - I am not qualified to be responsible for that, and I do not want to say something that might, like, dismantle democracy.' Some Twitter employees and users are worried that the billionaire may simultaneously stifle free speech and give voice to dangerous ideas. Grimes and Musk began dating in 2018 and have two children, son X Æ A-Xii and daughter Y, who was born via surrogate in December.
The Canadian artist, born Claire Boucher, mostly kept quiet about her thoughts on Musk's recent purchase. 'I'll keep getting in fights with people and realize we're not actually fighting.' 'I, like, go into different algorithmic bubbles to try to, like, understand,' she told MIT artificial intelligence researcher Lex Fridman. The 'We Appreciate Power' singer added that despite the platform's problems, she still has various 'fake Twitter accounts' that she uses to argue with people with different opinions. Singer Grimes said Twitter is responsible for a lot of issues in 'public mental health' in an interview days after her ex-partner and 'best friend' Elon Musk bought the social media site for $44 billion.