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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Mar 5, 2024 15:33:50 GMT -5
So are forums.
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Post by easye on Mar 5, 2024 15:43:44 GMT -5
No Forums are for the Ancients!  |
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Post by easye on Mar 7, 2024 11:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Mar 7, 2024 13:07:03 GMT -5
How would Musk even begin to distinguish between his loyal fan base sucking him off and the porn bots just promising it? It would devastate the local ecosystem.
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Post by bobtheinquisitor on Mar 8, 2024 10:41:39 GMT -5
Is Facebook back down for anyone else?
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Post by herzlos on Mar 8, 2024 12:06:01 GMT -5
Is Facebook back down for anyone else? It's very slow but seems to be working. |
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Post by mdgv2 on Mar 12, 2024 15:41:02 GMT -5
General thing, as it’s not necessarily a concern we can lay at the foot of FB et al.
But it’s randomers online asking “does anyone know Person X and their address” type stuff. It keeps cropping up in a couple of groups I’m in which focus on historical photos of cities and that.
Maybe I’m being overly cynical, but such posts always ring alarm bells.
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Post by herzlos on Mar 12, 2024 17:46:49 GMT -5
I haven't seen that, my local town facebook page is full of "I got a letter for X, does anyone know who it is?" but they seem genuine.
I'd be pretty wary doxxing someone to strangers online so would probably view the posts you've seen as a scam somehow.
On an unrelated note, I stumbled across the Dead Internet Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory) which is something I'd been pondering before. More and more on social media I'm seeing content creators comments are just full of obvious bots posting stuff like "Wonderful!" "The best video I've seen" and so on. I'm seeing a lot more generated content appearing in searches. So I do wonder if we're nearly at (or beyond) a point where there's more bot traffic than human on the internet. I can't think but feel that's it's so wasteful having bots interact with bot generated content online especially when it makes the internet worse. I wonder if we can solve the bot/AI problem before the internet becomes completely useless for the average person.
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Post by Haighus on Mar 12, 2024 17:52:57 GMT -5
It is a known fishing tactic.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Mar 12, 2024 18:33:32 GMT -5
I haven't seen that, my local town facebook page is full of "I got a letter for X, does anyone know who it is?" but they seem genuine. I'd be pretty wary doxxing someone to strangers online so would probably view the posts you've seen as a scam somehow. On an unrelated note, I stumbled across the Dead Internet Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory) which is something I'd been pondering before. More and more on social media I'm seeing content creators comments are just full of obvious bots posting stuff like "Wonderful!" "The best video I've seen" and so on. I'm seeing a lot more generated content appearing in searches. So I do wonder if we're nearly at (or beyond) a point where there's more bot traffic than human on the internet. I can't think but feel that's it's so wasteful having bots interact with bot generated content online especially when it makes the internet worse. I wonder if we can solve the bot/AI problem before the internet becomes completely useless for the average person. Probably not, the time to deal with this type of thing was several years if not decades ago, not today or years and years from now. |
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Post by Peregrine on Mar 12, 2024 19:28:09 GMT -5
I think the biggest obstacle to dealing with the bot problem is that the average person doesn't care if it's real people, they just want to mindlessly scroll the endless feed of content and push the like or dislike button.
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Post by herzlos on Mar 13, 2024 8:49:55 GMT -5
That makes sense, but given the bots can only regurgitate content (badly), at some point people will get bored of there being nothing new or interesting. There's only so many stories on Reddit you can rip off.
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Post by Haighus on Mar 13, 2024 9:36:08 GMT -5
Well, given the active user bases for most mature social media are shrinking, I get the impression that people are feeling increasingly unfulfilled by mindless scrolling despite the carefully crafted addiction-inducing dopamine hits from the algorithms. The resulting enshittification may well lead to a big social media crash over coming years, and I shudder to think what big tech will try to introduce for the internet 3.0.
Bots are a huge issue in their own right, and have no easy solutions if we want to maintain pseudonymous and/or anonymous spaces on the internet. Real name spaces could be vetted, but that leads to bigger costs and way to much power in the hands of big platforms. Perhaps the only real solution is to minimise profit incentives on the internet, but that is very difficult to do whilst phishing and similar fraud is a thing and there would still be bots produced for non-financial reasons like targeting elections in other states.
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Post by easye on Mar 13, 2024 10:28:01 GMT -5
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Post by tannhauser42 on Mar 15, 2024 8:09:48 GMT -5
The thing I don't like about this tiktok situation is that it feels like only steps away from nationalizing a business. What's the next business the US should take away because the owner is in a country we don't like? And, of course, now other countries are going to try the same to us.
On another note, thanks to new age verification laws here in Texas, PornHub has turned off access in Texas. I'm curious to see how much money the VPN industry will make from this.
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