NewNewAugustEast

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  "said that the AI-driven traffic apocalypse is a nightmare for people who make content online…“If we don’t figure out how to fix this, the internet is going to die,” he said.

  I make content online. I host my own web pages, I create my own content.

  The difference is I don’t do ads and I don’t ask for subscriptions. Like the way it used to be. The internet won’t die, the internet for profit will. I couldn’t care less if AI scrapes my site, it has zero bearing on what I am doing.

  The bigger issue, and the article is touching on it “journalism will die”. That is significant. Because any moron can post nonsense on the internet and have it picked up (also why the internet won’t die). Anyone with money in a different business can pretend to be publishing “news”.

  I think they are right that AI is not going to save media companies, I don’t know who is going to pay journalists, and there are few laws about owning a monopoly on media companies and requiring them to tell the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how everything I read about this uses WhatsApp as a reference. If you are using WhatsApp you already failed and probably don’t care about this, lol.

  In any case it’s time to get GrapheneOS and be done with this shot, but the irony is not lost on me that I will have to get a Google product (pixel) to avoid a Google product (Gemini).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yawn. So work with models without guardrail constraints? I am not sure what the point is here.

  Seems like it might be just as easy to read the book they referenced in the prompt and go from there instead of working so hard to break a commercially offered AI guardrails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rogue, Hack, Nethack. Basically nethack, but it built on those before it. Occaisonally Larn. Amiga Larn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant

  Signal is free just like whats app. For text, calls, and video. So that isn’t a problem.

  I too have friends and family in different countries, one of which is crazy about whatsapp. I simply tell them this is how we are going to do things now, and walk them through it. It is not hard. If they can’t do it, well then we don’t need to communicate this way. Whatsapp is not an option. It is that simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They live abroad and the cost of sending text messages abroad is not insignificant

  Signal is free just like whats app. For text, calls, and video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Internet rules from the days gone by - everyone is a liar. So it shouldn’t matter.