ultratiem

ultratiem, 3 days ago

Yes we know. We aren’t talking about the authenticity of the meme. We are talking about the fundamental problem with “AI”

ultratiem, 3 days ago

Yeah I stopped around the same time. But I didn’t know they were run by VK. That’s interesting.

ultratiem, 2 days ago

No not a honey pot. That’s now how honey pots work.

ultratiem, 2 days ago

Because someone in a position of authority at Amazon made the decision. I know people want to hear something enlightening or that even makes sense. That’s not companies today work. It’s always some absolute fucking brainless suite that storms in and demands these changes are made because they themselves, despite not knowing shit about anything, thinks its a good move (for very very stupid reasons).

And this isn’t DRM. You gotta learn what that acronym means. This is just the way they scale their service. Has absolutely nothing with digital rights or copy protection.

ultratiem, 3 days ago

All school programs are basically bought and paid for by big business. Adobe, MS, all control their bottom line this way. So of course they’ll only teach you MS Office and Photoshop.

ultratiem, 3 days ago

They didn’t “say” anything. Look at the screenshot. There’s no body, just the headline. So they literally went to that sub asking if there was an alternative.

ultratiem, 3 days ago

No, the body is removed and replaced with a banner that says the user deleted this post. Only the headline survives because that can never be changed.

ultratiem, 3 days ago

Reddit has hit rock bottom. I was banned from a sub because their bot crawled thru my history and found I “interacted” with subs they didn’t like (subs like fauxmoi). I said the fit on this girl didn’t do her justice and was shadow banned and my post locked because the sub apparently didn’t allow criticism of any kind. And that’s what Reddit is now. Subs with power hungry mods and admins, Reddit staff not even giving a fuck anymore, all of it makes the place such a ridiculous silo that if you say anything out of line in any sub, it’s downvote and likely removal of content at this point.

All the tech savvy people left (obviously) so now its edgy jokes and dumb suggestions. Call them out, and boom, downvote mob coming in hot.

What a fall in such a short time.

ultratiem, 3 days ago

That’s literally what’s left of Reddit these days. Literally. Just brutal how bad the API affected them and how Reddit doesn’t give two fucks. It’s just a cess pool of ignorance.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

I think tax payer dollars are used in this sense:

Ultra rich guy takes all your tax dollars. Spends it on a steak and lobster dinner. Eats their fill and then tosses you the shell and some of the gristle. Then they boast about how tax dollars are helping feed people. While technically true, the lions share doesn’t (rightfully) go to the tax payer but the one that collects it.

That’s how I see taxes working and that’s what every investigation has basically concluded. I don’t know where you live, but in Canada, no government ever has released details on how much it takes in and how much it spends. It operates in a void; a dark pool. Where money goes in and out and no one but them know where those funds are sent. It has basic budgeting details ($50m went to education) but those are general numbers.

Sorry if I don’t have a lot of trust that $5m of that went into some guy’s office because he hated the decor it was so 2013 rather than actual school programs. Moreover, it’s pretty common for crown corporations to get massive raises if they pull in a net positive (something they shouldn’t be doing as they need to operate at a zero profit).

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

That makes sense tho given how the FV has pretty low engagement and most of it is still good bots doing housekeeping or trying to boost exposure.

I guess I just didn’t think Reddit would collapse sooooo fast!

ultratiem, 13 hours ago

That was my initial reaction like wait Immortal is also a conspiracy nut lol

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Been mostly the same for me. If I ask a basic question like how to turn on Find My, I most likely will get a slew of downvotes and then one good samaritan post up the answer. If you ask a more technical question, like why is Find My iPhone using location services indefinitely, literally the entire website is like 🤷‍♂️

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

I know there is software that exists that can poison art so LLM can’t use it. I am hoping we make something like that against AI bots and ads. What a brutal future we have coming man.

Can you imagine once we move to androids and other synthetic like machines? Or brain implants? Your bff that’s telling you to eat more eggs because they read they were really good for might literally be saying that because of chicken farmers or some vested third party who makes bank on eggs. Just wild that we are going to be attacked from all sides by corporate greed.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

And what’s worse is that in a few years, thanks to “AI” learning how to mimic us, there will be full on accounts that look legitimate at every level. Probably even have other social media connected to boost validity. But at the end of the day, it’s just a sophisticated bot trying to sell you McDonald’s.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Really??? https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8aafc95e-126b-492d-a355-1b0d643f042d.jpeg

We might need to take to this a lemmy vote lol

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Yeah Ars has already called them out for being basically an ad company that cares only about shoving as many ads and paid content as they can in your face.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Holy crap the dude looks Ross Marquand its uncanny lol

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Reddit also released a new ad system that imbeds products in a “real life way” so you can get bots replying to users asking question that look 100% genuine but are run by say McDs. So if someone asks hey what do you eat in a given day, the bot can come in, totally organically, and say “oh i usually start my day with eggs and toast then for lunch I get a mcwrap because they’re on special for the month of march”. They “learnt” that people don’t write McWrap so they are trying to plug products basically how we do.

Which makes recommendations suss af! I feel almost paranoid going there these days like are half the posts and comments I reply to real??

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Oh I did not now this. Did this happen before or after Spez’s API freakout?

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Why am I not surprised! Musk is absolute cancer.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Yeah I think this is spot on. Someone else mentioned that Reddit doesn’t really want you spend lots of time (yet anyway, till they can roll out better their new Dynamic Product Ads) on a single post. It would rather you scroll upvote and move on so they can try to get as much of the feed to your eyeballs as possible.

arstechnica.com/…/reddit-sneaky-ai-spam-bots-comp…

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Thanks, yep this is it, thanks 🙏

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

Don’t even get me started on that. I made a post that blew up (7k upvotes) and literally the entire comments section was the same responses. Out of the 100s that replied, only 10% or less were novel.

ultratiem, 14 hours ago

I didn’t even know this was a thing lol