AI don't trust techbros

wonko the sane?

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Pocket said:
I feel like it should be the law that if a prominent whistleblower is found dead, everyone they blew the whistle on should just be declared guilty of their murder automatically.
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That is a slippery ******* slope there my friend.

There should be a massive, in depth investigation where in the whistle blowed are considered the prime suspects: but not automatically guilty. Maybe the cars brake lines failed due to actual poor maintenance, and not a clever ruse.
 
Pocket

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As if the business"people" who run companies like this deserve to not be considered criminals by default anyway. Hey, if they don't want to risk getting falsely accused of murdering whistleblowers, maybe they shouldn't do heinous jive that merits blowing a whistle in the first place.

EDIT: ...Huh, when did that word filter get turned back on?
 
Dekafox

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Anonymous X

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These feel like the last days of the consumer internet as a usable service. I have to admit that I’m thinking back nostalgically to the internet of 2005, when it was still useful, and community-based, and didn’t spill over into real life. Having it as just a niche, hobbyist pursuit at least kept the dark side of the possibilities of the mass-market internet at bay…
 
NovaSaber

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They're not done making it worse:
futurism.com

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.
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Were you hoping that bots on social media would be a thing of the past? Well, don't hold your breath.

Meta says that it will be aiming to have Facebook filled with AI-generated characters to drive up engagement on its platform, as part of its broader rollout of AI products, the Financial Times reports. The AI characters will be created by users through Meta's AI studio, with the idea being that you can interact with them almost like you would with a real human on the website.

"We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do," Meta vice-president of product for generative AI Connor Hayes told the FT.

"They'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform... that's where we see all of this going," he added.
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The AI characters aren't a new feature. Meta has long invested in AI and has spent the past year stuffing all kinds of generative AI tech into its existing products. That included the release of its AI Studio in the summer, which quickly became a hotbed of virtual boyfriends and girlfriends.
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Because of course it did.

Releasing these AI characters into the wild comes with huge safety risks. Futurism has extensively covered how similar chatbots on the platform Character.AI frequently broke their guardrails and exposed underage teenaged users to grotesquely inappropriate content.

There's also a massive risk of misinformation. The deluge of AI slop on Facebook already illustrates that the difficulties of clamping down on fabrications of reality isn't something that should be underestimated.
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Tuxedo Prime

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Dekafox said:
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I opened it up a few times and had real people in it, but it's unlikely from their post contents that they were living in anything like reality (though they did have a consensus of sorts).
And the one who was talking about real things then jumped off a slippery slope, so....

I've been only nominally on the Book of Faces the past several months. Even The Same Photo of Chief O'Brien Every Day doesn't have quite the same draw when there's no story to go with it (as there hasn't been for some time). And no, feeding DS9 eps into a prompt regurgitator program won't do, and kudos to whoever is involved for not doing that.

Anonymous X said:
These feel like the last days of the consumer internet as a usable service. I have to admit that I’m thinking back nostalgically to the internet of 2005, when it was still useful, and community-based, and didn’t spill over into real life. Having it as just a niche, hobbyist pursuit at least kept the dark side of the possibilities of the mass-market internet at bay…
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[Emphasis mine]

My city's "Goth Opera" of the early 2000s was partially fuelled by Livejournal, so I have to dispute that assessment.
 
Pocket

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The final stage of Facebook's evolution would be to secretly hide 100% of human-generated content—effectively amounting to a shadowban on its entire userbase—and instead fill their feeds with AI posts misattributed to their actual friends. The result would be that its users would be living in a cross between the Matrix and the Truman Show. I'm morbidly curious how long they could get away with that if they tried it.

...I've never watched Black Mirror; did I just accidentally write an episode of it or accidentally describe one that already exists?
 
XenoMorbidity

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NovaSaber said:
As if there weren't already enough ethical concerns with AI art, now this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1629243971238252544
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Is anyone surprised. Obseriving everything in the past decade has pushed me more politically left from being just a soft classic liberal the more you ended up seeing how they were going To use technology instead of how you wanted to see it used. I guess I was really naive or I only learn in real time and am stupid in that manner. But I mean, it became pretty clear ethics weren’t going to exist at all way before Covid. I’m stating the obvious. But that window of hmm maybe they will do things right moderately on some level died a lomg time ago.
 
XenoMorbidity

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Pocket said:
The final stage of Facebook's evolution would be to secretly hide 100% of human-generated content—effectively amounting to a shadowban on its entire userbase—and instead fill their feeds with AI posts misattributed to their actual friends. The result would be that its users would be living in a cross between the Matrix and the Truman Show. I'm morbidly curious how long they could get away with that if they tried it.

...I've never watched Black Mirror; did I just accidentally write an episode of it or accidentally describe one that already exists?
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Already Facebook is starting. to feel shittier then it used to be.
 
Ungnome

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Facebook has been on a slow downward spiral, quality wise, for over a decade. Looks like someone decided to punch the throttle to speed the decent recently, though.
 
Dekafox

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Yeah, Zuckerberg is on the same path as Musk has been from everything that's come out recently, just a bit slower and further back.
 
CoffeeHorse

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I believe none of this is even slightly new. I believe social media giants have always been using AI to look busier than they are. It's been a colossal scam on advertisers and investors. But it stopped working. They weren't able to stop the bubble from bursting. So they admitted the existence of these tools and said "Look what we just invented" to get a second round of investor money. This bubble will also burst when investors realize these tools aren't good for anything but creating terrible social media content, and the spokesmen claiming they totally just invented these things yesterday will prove to have no ability to design them to do anything else.
 
Pocket

Pocket

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Facebook has been transparently evil for over a decade now, and its userbase has been nothing but boomers spreading conspiracy theories for just as long. It's as much the dregs of the internet as 4chan as far as I'm concerned. Hell, Grand Theft Auto V, a game released in 2013, had a mission where you murder Legally Distinct Mark Zuckerberg and it's portrayed as an unambiguously good thing for everybody. I'm frankly amazed it's still relevant all this time later.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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You can blame the appropriate parties(the Nazis and their enablers) while still focusing on how to prevent it from happening again. In fact you kind a HAVE to assign appropriate blame for atrocities in order to help ensure they don't happen again. Makes it easier to spot groups that are getting close to implementing similar policies that lead to said atrocities.
 
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