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- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 1 week ago:
This is a major problem for all democracies, and LLM driven troll accounts probably do exist. But this xitter post is a fake error message. It’s clearly a troll.
Blocking fake accounts would help with the misinformation problem, but it’s a cat and mouse game. It could ultimately give additional credence to the trolls who slip through if the platform is assumed to be safe. The reality is that there will always be ways for fake accounts to avoid detection and to spoof account verification. Making it harder would help, but it’s not a comprehensive solution. Not to mention the fact that the platform itself has the power to manipulate public opinion, amplify their preferred narrative, etc.
The solution I’ve always preferred is the mentality the 4chan community had when I was younger and frequented it. Basically, and I’m paraphrasing:
Everyone here needs to grow up and understand that no post should ever be presumed to be true or legitimate. This is an anonymous forum. Assume that everything was written by a bot or a troll in the absence of proof that it wasn’t.
I think people put too much trust in social media precisely because they assume that there’s a real person behind every post. They assume that a face and a few photos gives an account legitimacy, despite the fact that it’s trivial to copy photos from a random account (2015/16 pro-Trump Facebook style) or just generate all of the content from scratch with AI (to avoid duplicate detection).
Trust itself is driver of misinformation. On social media, people should only fully trust posts made by people they know. That is the simplest and most comprehensive solution to the problem.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews 2 months ago:
Who exactly was hyped about this?
Personally, I typically want my interactions with technology to be quiet. I don’t want it talking, and I don’t want to be talking to it.
- Comment on OpenAI Announces that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Is Now Available In The API 2 months ago:
This sounds like the open source LLM community
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
The best part is that this whole thing is about having the “opportunity” to purchase reddit stock at its IPO price. This user generated content farm wouldn’t dare give away equity for free to users responsible for the site having any past, present, or future value.
I’m not a finance person, but the only gambling I’d do on this company is hope that Wall Street pumps the price post-IPO so I can short it.
My understanding is that the value of each reddit user is priced roughly at $2. A Facebook user is priced at roughly $40. Their only options to maybe be profitable are more enshittification, more users, or both. Or, you know, not paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the execs of an RSS feed with voting and comments.
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 3 months ago:
Great to have this context
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 3 months ago:
Elon is a megalomaniacal cunt, but I was wondering why environmentalists of all people would push to limit electric vehicle production. It seems a little brain dead while we’re actively watching the climate warm at a much higher rate than was predicted when I was young.
Anyway, this is about protecting their water.
Environmentalists also worry about the pressure the factory puts on the local water supply and the risk of contamination.
- Comment on How to use phone microphone with Bluetooth FM transmitter? 5 months ago:
Hm, yeah it works fine for me. I could never use the built-in mic on one of those cheap adapters
- Comment on How to use phone microphone with Bluetooth FM transmitter? 5 months ago:
I’m not sure if this is a stock Android feature or Samsung specific, but I have the ability to disable using my cheap Bluetooth adapter for calls under Bluetooth settings for the device
Image - Comment on The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment 6 months ago:
What happened is that the FTC is taking on Amazon in court as we speak:
- Comment on It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian – Krebs on Security 7 months ago:
Do you mean Equifax?
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
Actively contributing to this community being dumb and irrelevant I see. Trust me, I’ve already left. Eternal September has arrived.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
Yet you are, however, following a direct mirror of reddit right here in this community. Fully automated for your convenience.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
The other posts aren’t very related to technology either, and that’s my point. There was a time before Lemmy, when /r/Technology was focused on delivering news about new technology. Not tangentially related news about pro climate laws. Not the politics of social media companies. Not Elon Musk spam. Technology. /r/Science was vastly different in the past as well. In general, these communities had much more substantiative content with nuanced discussions in the comments from experts in relevant fields. Lemmy was a bit like that as well in the past. But unfortunately bots like this one started reposting all of the drivel from Reddit to the main Technology community, drowning out content with more depth. I want communities that I can genuinely learn from. I want to feel hesitant to comment, because everyone in the room is smarter than me. I miss that version of the internet.
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
This news is as related to technology as a weather report citing rain in Silicon Valley is relevant to technology. It doesn’t fit the sub.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 8 months ago:
I actually didn’t realize it supported anything other than YouTube. TIL
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
Please elaborate on the technological advancement that was made here
- Comment on Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact 8 months ago:
This is not a post about technology.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 8 months ago:
NewPipe has been my go-to for years. Available on F-Droid with regular updates.
- Comment on Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco 8 months ago:
Techies?
- Comment on X’s privacy policy confirms it will use public data to train AI models 8 months ago:
Can we let this platform die quietly and stop bombarding the feed with Elmo spam?
- Comment on LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find 8 months ago:
Gavin Belson has entered the chat
- Comment on Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” 8 months ago:
I think this is fair, but man the retaliatory tariffs for NSA backdoors would be atrocious
- Comment on Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges) 9 months ago:
Gergely Orosz Sep 7, 2023 Paid
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
Yeah, no, I’m right. This is always how it starts, and these new Channels “partners” will definitely be a revenue stream in the future if they aren’t already. Your view is naive.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
I also find it crazy that people don’t understand the value of privacy. Telling people that Nissan wants to sell information about your sexual activity seemed to wake some of my social circle up. But only in the context of Nissan, which almost certainly doesn’t have that data. Meta almost certainly does.
What sort of roadmap are you looking for in Signal? It does everything I need it to do, personally.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
Ew. Thanks for pointing me to that. TIL.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
Unofficially, yes probably. But officially Facebook only upped the ante on user data connection from WhatsApp more recently according to their privacy policy. Sorry, “Meta”
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
Is it? How do you define enshittification?
Because adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning “making things worse” -ificaton.
The rest of this story is very predictable following Meta’s track record with social media. Everything will go to shit from a UX perspective now that they’ve decided to put ads in the app. That is how this works.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
I feel like this thread has been bombarded by the Zuckerberg defense brigade.
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 9 months ago:
You mean they’re adding ads but it’s cool because we don’t have to click on them? You’re right, this will never be made more intrusive, and it’s definitely not an anti-feature.