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- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 1 day ago:
The sick world you live in is online. It’s not real. The world you see through your black mirror isn’t the same as the one you see outside the window. News has always been a litany of human misery. Online news is pure and condensed human suffering.
- Comment on Usually a horrible interaction for all involved 2 days ago:
Holy shit! I’m sorry, but you guys sound like the worst employees in the world. Drug deals in the parking lot? Coming to work whacked out on LSD?
- Comment on The one tool more effective than censorship is noise 3 days ago:
If Europe imposes journalism standards on social media, it is that much harder to spin crap.
The Fediverse is social media. What kind of journalism standards would be imposed upon it?
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 4 days ago:
My guess would be evolution. Those horses that let us ride them were fed well and cared for by humans and then mated with similar horses to make more and more of the same. Those that didn’t let us ride them had to fight for their own food and fight for their own mates and didn’t multiply as much. So we essentially happened upon a couple of horses that enjoyed hauling us around, told them to kiss each other, and we got more. Repeat and rinse for tens of thousands of year.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Is PeerTube separate from the rest of the fediverse? I’m on Lemmy and get everything from what’s in the OP image except the video things.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 week ago:
I’m not exactly rejecting it, but I can’t afford to build a new computer that can run it till the AI bubble bursts.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
That’s just because he looks like depression.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
Sure, google knows I’m a 50+ year old man but YT isn’t pushing me a bunch of videos about retirement and how to keep the damn kids off my lawn. If I made a new account and it knew nothing about me, it might. But right now it knows I’m interested in obscure early 20th Century comic books and early 70s horror anthology shows.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
Algorithms aren’t that smart. Maybe there needs to be general education about how they work so people will understand that viewing a video is like searching for a topic in google so people will understand how much control over what they see and use the technology appropriately.
If you watch a video about anorexia that’s like typing “Anorexia” in Google or pressing 9 on a remote control, you’re getting channel 9. That’s why to me this sounds crazy. It’s like someone complaining their TV keeps pushing the cooking channel at them.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
I get some manosphere stuff for the same reason, but mostly ignore it. At the risk of getting beat up here, I like Joe Rogan. His celebrity interviews are entertaining and I like wacky subjects like UFOs and such which he covers. Plus I’m a gamer so I watch videos about guns frequently because I find that fascinating though I don’t want to own one. So that’s why I’ll get recommended manisphere stuff. And I’ll get curious and take a look at those videos, and get more recommendations. But when I stop watching them, they go away.
Everybody talks about Andrew Tate but I have never ever seen any of his videos. Him or Mr. Beast. They never get recommended. I only know about Tate because everybody everywhere else is complaining about him. So I don’t what that researcher did to get that.
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 1 week ago:
That lawsuit documents the case of a 19-year-old, K.G.M, who hopes the jury will agree that Meta and YouTube caused psychological harm by designing features like infinite scroll and autoplay to push her down a path that she alleged triggered depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicidality.
What the hell is everyone watching? YT recommends me Red Letter Media, Veratasium, old movies, Blender tutorials and a bunch of other stuff that’s never going to drive me to self-harm. I don’t understand. May be this woman doesn’t have ad blocker installed and is forced to sit through a bunch of soul crushing PSAs? Why is my experience so drastically different from this?
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 1 week ago:
A lot of sites had to block the UK like Imgur, or completely shut down like Urban Dead, because they aren’t the kajillion dollar companies the UK government thought the Internet was made of. I don’t know why the UK didn’t enforce parental control software instead. OSA was a solution for a problem solved 30 years ago and is just going to destroy the Internet since it’s not possible for the vast majority of it to adhere to its laws.
- Comment on The $20 USD bill is the new 5$ bill 2 weeks ago:
I use 1930 as the base year. So $20 USD bill is actually the new $1 bill.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
Follow Albert’s Path:
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide?
Chatbots have been around since the 70s. They’ve always been able to coach people to commit suicide. The problem isn’t the software. It’s the wetware. People used to somehow manage not to get talked into killing themselves by their Commodore VIC 20.
- Comment on Huh? 3 weeks ago:
For singles bars, it’s so people can get close and talk in each other’s ears and have a private conversation.