hessenjunge
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- Comment on demon named racecar 21 hours ago:
What language is that?
- Comment on demon named racecar 21 hours ago:
Du bist von hinten wie von vorne.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
I agree that videos that take 15 minutes to explain something that could have been explained in 5 suck. A video explaining how to tie a bowline should be longer than a minute. However shorts with useful content are quite rare, maybe not even 1% of shorts content. Still there is useful information, thanks for pointing that out - I even found this useful knot
The biggest problem with shorts IMO is the presentation. You get force fed brain rot junk. Even when you klick on the links to specific videos like you and I provided you are taken to a stream of videos where the next videos are usually of the brain rot type.
Seeing how children are affected by this format/phenomenon and how the extremist right has used it for political gain I think it dangerous to leave it unregulated. I thinks it is possible to prevent the junk watching part without content-based restriction.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’m trying to understand your use case and it is still unclear to me. Did you ever seek out a short video to use as a how to?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Ok, these channels also have the normal length videos covering topics of interest. The shorts seem to be rather a byproduct. How do you personally use them? Do you search for a specific activity or is that part of doom-scrolling shorts?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
For the AI one to restrict it from children you have to determine the age of the person accessing it. How do you do that and still allow them to maintain anonymity?
Could be a layered approach. First off you could require it by terms of service and nagging during registration. Anonymous as you only require 2 email-adresses - easy to circumvent due to the same reasons. Due to tech illiteracy of most parents this is probably catching only a minority of cases.
You could enforce id as adult using a 3rd party service - e.g. Google, Apple, government ID, credit card. This would be equal to most current systems in place that I am aware of. As you correctly point out this will have the authenticating entity have a list of the services you use. Hence I’d prefer it to be a government ID over any commercial service. To most people this is also just one more service as they may use Apple, Google, Steam, Epic, etc. pp. Heck, most people (excluding me) use Whatsapp, so they don’t give a fuck about data privacy.
On top of that: We are talking about an AI service that collects and analyzes your data. The chatbot impersonates a friend or (as in the present case) a lover. Before you even typed the 1st sentence they have your email, IP, IP - Geolocation, time zone, preferred language. They probably logged in using an app on a stock Android ROM, so they also know your GPS location, WiFi, cell information, local Temperature, etc. pp. Then they start chatting and divulge even more information. What I’m trying to explain is that the AI company potentially has way more info on you than just the credit card and name. On top of that there is zero control messing with the mental health of children.
For banning short form content. How do you quantify what counts?
First off I’d ban platforms like TikTok entirely. They are effectively damaging society. The mixed content platforms are a more difficult matter - it’s a complex problem.
I could point you to several craftsman channels that produce very informative shorts.
Please do. I don’t know any and I don’t believe 1-2 min videos have any value besides short term endorphine kicks - I’m willing to educate myself though
For banning short form content. How do you quantify what counts?
Looking at shorts on Youtube and Reels on Insta it is more complicated than just banning the categories on each platform. Yes video length is a factor. Also bringing back / requiring public downvote scores will help. Both measures should improve the current situation greatly. Lastly you can use tools already in place but not really used such as the auto recognition and community reporting tools of the platforms - I mean they have them but they don’t use them. E.g. Facebook and Xitter continuously break German hate speech laws without facing consequences.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
How is this exactly encroaching on the privacy and freedoms of adults?
How is that the same as policing porn or violent media?
Be specific.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
What exactly do you mean by ‘these things’?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
I’d have to write 2 PhD thesis’s about this to answer this one question properly.
Instead I’m just doing 2 examples and keep it shallow :
Th is case: A 14yo should not have completely unsupervised access to an ai chat bot - it needs to be by family/child account, same as for e.g. Fortnite. Also, given the nature of the matter and looking at the article: if the chat turns ’disturbing’ the parent needs to be made aware. (Etc etc)
Another case is TikTok: honestly, I’d just ban it together with shorts and reels. IMO this rots the brains of the younger generation. I’m not even sure there is a healthy way of consuming this type of content.
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 1 week ago:
Well, yes but stuff like chatbots, social media should be way better regulated.
Right now we see the equivalent of people selling drugs and guns freely in the streets (including to toddlers) and expect the parents to regulate all that.
Society is being actively eroded, while governments are fecklessly watching it happen.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 weeks ago:
He’s being criticized too. Everyone that showed up in something other than black is a narcissistic dumbfuck.
- Comment on Germany to reach out to France and UK over sharing of nuclear weapons 2 months ago:
Curiously, this “reality” of yours doesn’t mention any of the metric ton of lies told by Farage, Johnson, etc. For example, that bus claiming millions of pounds would go to the NHS after Brexit. You correctly state People are hurt by conservative policies, however Brits keep voting for them. You could have voted for Corbyn - you chose not to. Instead of keeping to ask for a special deal, after special deal after special deal as Britain did before, and during Brexit, just negotiate like normal people.
what’s the alternative to nuke sharing? Germany builds its own arsenal and you have no stake or say in it whatsoever. Does that sound more appealing to you?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank 7 months ago:
Also
‘He took to Twitter and tweeted a tweet.’
Should now be
‘He took to Xitter and xat a xit.’
The X being pronounced ‘sh’ every time.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 7 months ago:
They code-switch between English and Hindi. If you don’t know Hindi, you won’t understand it. Are all posts like this? Of course not.
You’re so close. Let me give you another hint: What do you think every other regional sub looks like? (I speak multiple languages, so I’ve been to multiple regionals - including in Languages I don’t really speak)
Also, yes it is a bit racist to assume that Indians are only able to converse in an Hindi/English mix and unable to converse in proper English. On top of that it is a bit stupid to assume all of India speaks Hindi - e.g. most of Bengalurians speak Kannada.
But there aren’t as many English-speakers as in America. I didn’t say all, I say most (this will be a recurring theme).
You’re correct. It’s a recurring theme. You have been made aware by multiple people now that you over-inflate the percentage of USAmericans among the users of English-speaking forums and that you have been incredibly ignorant about it.
I think none will dispute that US located users are in the majority - the majority is however not as big as you make it out to be. (and your reasoning is - for lack of a better term - atrocious)
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 7 months ago:
I admire your determination to bend your perception of facts to fit your narrative.
- Russia, Kanada, Australia, South America? Apparently they ceased to exist.
- Africa? They still live in mud and abject poverty. There is no electricity nor Internet.
- China? They’re 100% locked in. (No bots no nothing.)
- Indians can’t write proper English (a bit rich coming from an USAmerican)
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 7 months ago:
FYI
According to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?
Population of the US: 334.914.895, Population of Europe: 745.173.774. 334.914.895/745.173.774 = 0,449%
English Speakers in the US: 297.400.000. English Speakers in Europe: 260.000.000. So you have about 37,4M more English speakers in the US than in Europe.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 7 months ago:
Sorry, are you trying to prove beyond a doubt that you are dishonest and statistics-illiterate?
which is why I said:
It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.
No, you wrote:
**The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins **- and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.
So your assumption is based on a gross misinterpretation of the statistics you presented. Your incorrect interpretation of the graphs would put US participation at about 99,99%, which is obviously ridiculous.
Also according to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?
The point of using the IP address statistics is to show that the vast majority of websites on the Internet were created in the US for the US market, and that is still true today.
That’s not at all what these graphs show though. While I agree that most websites might be US targeted towards the US calling that ‘vast’ is bit of a stretch.
… and realistically not many people outside the US had any interest in the internet in 1983.
I gather you’ve not been around then. Almost none had any interest in “the internet” until the mid 90s - this includes the US. Partly because what you refer to as “the internet” was called WWW back then and started only 1989. People had been very anal about this until about 2005 - I guess you haven’t been around then either.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 7 months ago:
No, they highlight some problems with IP4: Bad distribution of IP4 ranges and bad distribution of those ranges. So the graphs show the US has way too much IP actresses, some under used/unused and some overused. The blog post they are from is pretty clear about this.
These graphs do not give an indication of how many users per country there are. There are in fact statistics on that which expectedly show China and India on top. These however do not take into account that social media use way more popular in the U.S. for now.
The closest stat may be Reddit users by country which seems to indicate that about every 2nd user is from the US. (Not sure if Russian/Chinese bot accounts also count towards these though).