

I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I’d guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.
I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I’d guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.
I guarantee Anthropic is still using AI to go through all the applications, and is likely using them to train specialized models which AI generated text would subtly poison or collapse.
Just run your LLM slop through an obfuscator or reword a few things here and there and voila, more chum for the slop bucket! 👍
Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.
He’s going to slap 100% tariffs on all network packets passing in and out of China! That will fix everything including the price of eggs!
Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn’t lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.
And most certainly businesses should never use the “algorithm” on social media to collect data or get “free” advertising such as those “like/repost to win” style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.
Tell those local businesses that you really want to support and follow them, but that you boycott Meta and the reasons that you do.
Honestly there’s so many reasons businesses should also avoid Meta, like the fact Meta is literally collecting and selling their most valuable business data about their customers to other competing businesses. Tell them for their own good that Meta is not their friend, it might help them at first to get exposure, but only long enough to get that data and sell it off to a bigger fish.
I’m trying to move my news off social media and on to RSS. I set up an RSS reader with a handful of trusted and varied news sources (some mainstream, some independent, some local, some foreign) and now I’m starting to filter out news from Lemmy and other social networks.
Some things I quickly noticed is that not having a comments section is actually great, I can jump straight to or past subjects I’m not in the mood for, and there’s no endless scroll but if I feel there’s too little I can add more sources and if there’s too much I can take some out. I still also use Lemmy so if I find an interesting new blog or website, I can add it to my RSS reader to keep following it instead of relying on strangers posting new content and it getting voted up. This lets me focus more on the smaller special interest groups that social media is actually good for.
I recently set up some domains with FastMail at the recommendation of some other Lemmy users. Cheap, easy setup, all the features I wanted, and problem free so far!
I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have “capitalism” and “democracy” too!
My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it’s too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.
Only the banks know their exact reasons for trying to sell off these loans and they will most certainly not say because they don’t want to scare off potential buyers. It could be that the banks need money right now and don’t want to wait for the borrower to repay the loan, or it could be that the banks are having doubts about the borrower’s ability to pay back the loan at all.
Whatever their reasons, the banks are currently willing to take a flat 5-10% loss in addition to the ongoing interest in order to get their cash back immediately and offload the risk to someone else.
Late stage capitalism has now created mega corporations that no longer profit off their innovation and quality, but merely off manipulation and exploitation of their mind-boggling amounts of capital. They now must crush all competition using authoritarian means because competition is now their biggest weakness.
Capitalism is well and truely dead, and corporations and conservatives are the ones who killed it. They want to remove the ladder of success that got them there.
I’m wondering how much of TikTok is actually authentic. Like when a video gets hundreds of views and likes, is TikTok padding those numbers to make users feel like they are “viral” just to stay on the platform? Even if TikTok isn’t directly doing it, how many are from bot farms just trying to “look normal” by having their sock puppets engage with “normal” videos before using them to push their desired narratives?
Maybe I should start a social network with a mysterious black box algorithm that is really just a random number generator that only goes up. 🤔
I like how they don’t label the y-axis at all to give any sense of scale. This graph could be showing a jump from 10 to 22 people. 🤷
It’s funny how quickly Republicans forgot about making America great (again).
Moderates who “voted for the economy” right now: 🤡
User: “Can we get Google?”
Microsoft: “But we already have Google at home!”
The Google at home: [reskinned Bing page]
“He’s hurting the wrong people!”
Four years ago is a long time to remember for people with a room temperature IQ.
Except this move is likely less about promoting domestic solar production and more about protecting oil, gas, and coal by making green energy alternatives more expensive.
You mean the corporation you gave boatloads of personal data to is manipulating it to use against you in the pursuit of profit?! [surprised pikachu.jpg]
Maybe neither Democrats or Republicans are to blame, but instead it’s the wealthy capitalists who have been using their growing money and influence to force both political parties into supporting a genocide.
Plenty of CEOs of major US companies have shown their support for Israel, but very few have even acknowledge Palestine. The rest of us are just peasants living under the lie that our votes actually could meaningfully change this.