Not only that but they got data from all of that slop to see which slop got engagement and which did not. Now they can use that data to generate more convincing slop.

Straight-up. I really don’t care who these people voted for. If they’re pissed that datacenters are stealing their family home, that’s actually a perfect opportunity to win right-wing votes that doesn’t compromise values. At the minimum, It’s an opportunity to fight back against big tech and data centers. Punishing them for who they presumably voted for is deranged on multiple levels, but unfortunately normalized among liberals.

Liberals will insist on adopting centrist and right wing policies in the hope of winning over jetski dads in the suburbs. They’ll do anything they can to win over these voters. They do it every election. It leads to a cynicism among voters that nothing can ever change for the better (and they’re fucking right). So people stay home or vote for someone else. The jetski dads predictably vote for the most fascist politician possible, because that’s what they want. They don’t want fascism lite, they want fascism done right. The centrist eats shit and blames the left (who often work tirelessly to elect their dumbass as a harm reduction measure, but whatever).

Then, when the Republican wins and starts doing Republican shit, liberals offer only condascending quips about a process that never works out for people. They insist that suffering is payment to them from the poorest and least educated people in the USA for not playing their little game correctly. And in the same fucking breath, they’ll propose more dead-end centrist garbage to the same jetski dads as last time.

Stop conceding to the right. Run on populist left policies that improve the material lives of everyone, and you’ll naturally win over voters. That includes saving rural Georgian families from data centers even if they don’t like you or vote for you. If you do enough for them you will eventually win them over. Fighting data centers is a net win for environmentalism and labor.

Yes, absolutely block him. Some dudes will use that personal info plus other material to blackmail you. Then they’ll post it all on a revenge porn site. Be careful out there.

The datacenters largely aren’t built yet, as someone else pointed out. That doesn’t even matter though, to your point.

The Epstein class has successfully destroyed large portions of the Internet through bot traffic. They’ve scraped virtually all human contributions and stolen it, while ruining traditional vehicles for information gathering. They’ve eviscerated consumer hardware, and thus shifted control of compute away from the masses. They’ve successfully manufactured consent for mass surveillance including harvesting our biometric data.

Once the AI bubble bursts, it will be one of the largest transfers of wealth in history as they force us to bail out this fradulent industry. If it doesn’t throw us into another great depression, the damage it will do will ensure that things never go back to how they were pre-AI. Once that reality becomes apparent to the masses, they’ll be primed and ready for Peter Theil’s vision of “Freedom Cities”

I really just hope you’re trolling at this point.

For sure. Most of my money goes to local artists. If I want to support a music artist, I will usually see them in concert and/or purchase merch. But Ticketmaster is making that difficult these days. I had to have this discussion with my mom regarding amazon kindle.

“AI companies are stealing everything anyway. Get your media while you can, because they don’t want it to exist anymore.”

I will usually buy vinyl or cds for artists that I listen to a lot. It has the additional benefit of giving you a hard copy of the data. But yeah, this is unfortunately the way.

This is an overt invasion of everyone’s privacy to protect children. It will do nothing to stop children from accessing this content. On the contrary, it will likely push them to even more unsavory areas of the internet to get around it.

20 years ago, the goal was to “protect us from terrorists,” and now the argument is “protect children from the world we created.” A year or two from now, they’ll realize that they didn’t go far enough with this, because children will use TOR and/or VPNs to get around it. Then they will come for those technologies. It is a transparent power grab by rightwing fanatics. It always has been and always will be.

I think a lot of people thought that they were going to pay a flat monthly fee forever. This is just the beginning.

I’ve been warning anyone who will listen that the metered token-based rates are the future for this industry. I’ve had coworkers dismiss my warnings, and now here we are. It’s gonna be a shit show once anthropic eventually switches over to token-based billing for services like Claude Code.

I don’t think there are many bots on Lemmy. If I were a betting man, though, I’d wager that the 10-day-old account complaining about the .ml instance is the bot

Who owns the implementation of this? Is this something that websites opt into and add to their own site? Or is this something that Google injects when you’re clicking a search result on Google?

I imagine scammers are already thinking of ways to use this for phishing too

How is this guy a fucking CEO

I think that psychopaths naturally claw their way up to that position, so it checks out

I’ll never understand how devs get so confident in their product that they will provoke hackers/attackers. I wouldn’t even have that level of confidence even after an independent audit lmao

Edit: also what kind of dumbass makes an April fools joke about their own product being compromised. Amateur shit.

Yeah I can’t say I feel bad for anyone involved. But something tells me the people who created this problem won’t be the ones suffering consequences.

This is going to all collapse so horrifically once AI companies change their payment model to token usage rather than a flat monthly fee. It’s already starting with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic is the last (and most consequential) nail in the coffin.

Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.

@grok this true?

Seriously. When unit 8200 comes to you and asks to use your service, it should be pretty obvious what it’s for. It’d be like feigning ignorance after creating something specifically for the NSA.

The problem with vampire hunting games is they typically involve other themes in addition to vampire hunting. But if you’re cool with that, then The Witcher franchise might scratch the itch. I’m pretty sure the Blood and Wine expansion is vampire heavy.

I’ve found that most people understand that signing up for an email service like Gmail allows them to communicate with people who aren’t on Gmail. Tie that in to explaining federation.

“Mastodon is kind of the same idea, but for social media.”

Obviously the technical details are different, but it helps explain federation at a very high level. Then you can talk about why that’s valuable for longevity of a system.

Example: the decline of Yahoo and AOL as email providers didn’t end email as a technology because email doesn’t depend on those companies existing to function.