Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been (and continue to be).

I found some of my favourite bands by downloading mislabelled songs on limewire.

I have to admit, I have questions about the impact of spending too much time deep inside machine logic territory.

Because the advent of computers allows for all kinds of creative new ways to massage numbers to “prove” something to people, even when it flies in the face of what is obviously happening in the real world.

I think I’ve used Amazon a grand total of twice in my life. Got a cheap knockoff of what I actually ordered both times.

It may prompt people to recognizing things they had glossed over before.

Language learning models are all about identifying patterns in how humans use words and copying them. Thing is that’s also how people tend to do things a lot of the time. If you give the LLM enough tertiary data it may be capable of ‘accidentally’ (read: randomly) outputting things you don’t want people to see.

I can’t wait until people find out that you don’t even need to train it on secrets, for it to “leak” secrets.

And people wonder why there’s so much push back against everything corps/gov does these days. They do not act in a manner which encourages trust.

Could be to match the style of the target, to try and make the conversation feel more natural for them.

I can understand what you mean.

I suppose on my end the reason that social media exists was as a forum for open communication with strangers that you would never actually meet in real life, generally to discuss interests and hobbies, or to just shoot the shit. I’ve never viewed it as a platform for replacing the methods we already had for communicating with people we did know in real life, such as phone, or just meeting with them face to face.

It worked pretty well for what it was created to do, then corporations and governments thought they could profit off of it. I assume they were also concerned that people were starting to talk about things they didn’t want people to talk about, like their penchant for buying and selling children.

It’s almost like trying to run the world on social media was a shit tier idea.