You’ll get over it

e: You guys are some old Farkers

Seems like a standard that isn’t possible to meet. If there was a reliable way to detect bots we wouldn’t be in this situation where bots dominate social media.

I can tell you that the bot tactic of promoting outrage and vitriol is well known and the topic of AI has some of the most toxic people participating. Always bringing insults, fallacy laden ‘arguments’ and downvote spamming.

That doesn’t happen on other topics where people disagree, even in this community.

We know bots are a big problem on social media. We know the tactics that they use, they infiltrate both extremes and use those positions to sow division and anger and, in my experience, this is the topic that receives the most comments fitting that tactic.

In the literal sense that is true, but trivially so.

Every computer program and application is a collection of algorithms under the computer science definition of algorithm. In the context of Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, TikTok when I said algorithm I mean a recommendation algorithm and, more specifically, recommendation algorithms that are intended to recommend you news or information.

If Mark Zuckerberg wants you to see a specific kind of content he can unilaterally make that happen across the planet by adjusting the parameters of the various recommendation algorithms that he controls.

That is not possible on Lemmy, as it does not use a recommendation algorithm controlled by a single individual. At best someone could attempt vote manipulation using a large number of bot accounts, but that would be detected if it is used at scale.

If you’re reading Meta, your worldview is largely controlled by one person. You may think that you’re smart enough to avoid misinformation or that your own research counters the misinformation that you see every day, but you are being psychologically primed to create mental associations which happens below the level of consciousness and is not a process that you can control. The very fact that you think that you’re immune and that your reasoning can protect you is weaponized against you.

Delete them, there is absolutely nothing on those platforms that is worth the damage that they’re inflicting on democracy around the world. These are the handmaidens of fascisim, the 21st century propaganda machines that are pumping custom designed poison into your mind.

Delete them

There are financing options available…

Delete Twitter(and Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, TikTok, etc)

If an algorithm serves it then it is pouring poison into society through your eyes, stop letting them.

It’s also clearly not the only writing on the subject on the entire Internet.

There is no topic more botted than the AI discussion and I see Lemmy isn’t immune.

Instructions unclear, but appears to work fine

Guy’s stop attacking the OP for his poor idiom usage, it’s starting to effect their mental health

MAGA is an expert of artificial intelligence, lacking any real intelligence

Weird, all of the messages start with

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Ya, that seems reasonable.

I think it’s a pretty core democratic value that no person is worth more than another. A compromise of 1 million times should satisfy individuals with even the most acute case of wealth hoarding.

Not only is it panic, but by the time you’re looped in it’s already half way up the management chain and you can’t see the end of the cc list.

Valve made a big move when they started their Proton project. That was a key compatibility layer for a more wide-spread adoption.

It was shocking at how fast it went from ‘you can tweak it to run most things’ to ‘I don’t even check to see if the game works anymore before I buy it’.

Someone hacked the government

No, a flat amount will never work. Make it a multiple of some figure, like average wage. That way it actually changes with inflation and we don’t have a situation where the the inflation adjusted minimum wage is 6 times the actual federal minimum wage.

She’s a great author and person.

You just knew it was the first step in getting rid of the headphone jack… and it made the mens line at the Apple Store, ironically, very long

To the people that don’t get it. Censorship is when the government oppresses or modifies speech.

What the user above is talking about is when social media companies like Twitter banned Donald Trump and neo-nazi accounts.

Social media companies are private entities that you have a contract with where they provide you with service and you agree to abide by specific terms of that service. Hate speech and promotion of violence are things that you have agreed to not do on their services. If you do those things, then you agreed that your account could be terminated. That is what happened to Trump and the neo-nazi accounts (but I repeat myself).

I can agree that social media companies have too much power over public interaction and media consumption but I also agree that a person or organization should not be forced to host and broadcast messages that they disagree with.

Ironically, this standing legal interpretation is due to a right-wing lawsuit widely celebrated on the religious right about a cake baker who didn’t want to make wedding cakes for a gay wedding. The ruling is what affirmed the ability of private entities to regulate speech on their platforms.

Complaining about being banned from a public platform and also celebrating the victory of the cake baker is a situation where their side wants to have their cake and eat it too.

This brand of argument is basically ‘If you can’t do everything perfectly, then it is pointless to do anything especially the thing that you’re suggesting.’

You see this person in every thread on every topic where people discuss things that they can contribute their expertise to. Their message is ‘it is hopeless, your plan won’t work, give up what you’re doing, you don’t stand a chance’.

Honestly, and forgive the langue, but fuck those people. You know what your strengths are and what you’re capable of, not some faceless bot pushing violent political rhetoric who is, by its own admissions, not in the US.

If you don’t want to participate in the tech landscape as it exists today, there is absolutely nothing wrong about avoiding it entirely and building something else. Companies will not be so complacent about their position in the market if they know there’s a completely Free alternative that does everything that they charge a subscription for.

The people who are doing self-hosting today are exactly like the early adopters of the smartphone or any other technology. There’s always people trying new things and sometimes they succeed.

People who are using privacy focused approaches to personal technology, like self-hosting, are beta testing the ability to use cheap, mass produced hardware and open source software to build a product ecosystem that meets their needs. That progress is enjoyed by anybody in the future who decides they also want to leave the walled gardens of Tech Giantopia.