• 6_Electrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 minutes

    I just thought about this… They made it so hard for me to make an anonymous account I moved here. The AI accounts have more tools at their disposal to get around this and have more incentive to so they stick around. They’re little going to fill their site with bots while getting rid of a good portion of their human uses because of their shit practices.

    Further when you sell out to using you data to build AI models what do you expect to show up after?

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      To then sell those accounts to people trying to manipulate the real users on the site.

      • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        4 hours

        Yeah, I’m sure that was going on a LOT, I never really had it in the forefront of my mind though, mostly because thinking of ways to make money seems to be an alien concept to my mind. I wonder how much mine was worth before I got banned… probably not much anyways it was mostly comment karma from answering questions. Oh well lol.

        • BeUnique@lemmy.zipEnglish
          55 minutes

          I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You’d have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.

          This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number has gone down since then.

          • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            47 minutes

            Oh gosh well mine was like $5 then lol. Yeah it really doesn’t seem worth it to me but then I live in a totally different economy I suppose.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3 hours

          It probably wouldn’t get that much either, most of those karma farmers are in low income countries with lots of english speakers, eastern europe, india, places like that.

          • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3 hours

            I suppose, I just heard about the vastness of the old WoW gold farming economy semi recently, the amount of money going through that kind of stuff is just mind boggling.

            • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3 hours

              I read about some online game that had gold, and these hackers learned to fabricate it after compromising the system, and were selling it to players, is that what you are referring to? That was a long time ago, not sure exactly, over 10 years though.

  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 hours

    biohackers is a shit sub, on a subject that silicon valley internet douche lords were already big on. Fuck those guys, anyone on that community is already a fucking tool.

    It would be like complaining about manipulative posts on a singularity sub.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
      3 hours

      It’s really strange that the mods in the article are talking about the risks for their users by spammers while operating a subreddit that is totally encouraging people to inject them with really strange, untested stuff

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3 hours

        I remember they were big on this methylene blue stuff, that rfk was hyping, apparently people that take it if they get autopsied they have blue in their brains. But yeah, all sots of weird stuff.

        Biohacking was already a word used by all of these fountain of youth chasers following snake oil salesman, that is what they are.

        • joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2 hours

          I wasted so much money on different nootropics over the years, but it was stuff like piracetam, centroxophine, deprenyl, hydergine, stuff that’s actually been tested on people before, and to be honest it would be hard to find a reputable lab nowadays unless you are a legitimate researcher.