DigitalDilemma

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The truth is, we don’t need AI to have misinformation, and AI is not the biggest problem in the current post-truth society. There has been a war going on globally in undermining truth for a long time. The old saying, “The first casualty in war is truth” is invalid now, because truth is no longer relevant and lies are weaponised like never before in history. People don’t want to be certain of something, their first reaction to news is to react at a deep and emotional level and the science of misinformation is highly refined and successful in making most people react in a certain way. It takes effort and training not to do that, and most of us can’t.

Journalists have been warning us about this for decades but integrity costs money, and that funding has been under attack too. It’s pretty depressing whichever way you look at it.

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Personal view: I’d rather you didn’t. One of the benefits of Lemmy over Reddit is that repost bots are at a minimum.

Wow… Just… wow.

We must be getting popular.

One of the interesting things about surveys is you only learn about the sort of people who complete surveys.

You waited two hours before demanding a reply? Wow. Funnily enough I don’t live at the keyboard and was away doing interesting real world stuff.

Your other question wasn’t relevant to the subject in my view, so although I wasn’t ignoring you, I will now.

I don’t want Lemmy to be zero censorship.

In every case I’ve known, anywhere claiming “zero censorship” either adopts it sooner or later, or disappears - and in every one of those cases, it was a godawful place to be 100% of the time. IME, those who do say they want this tend to be either edgy teenagers, crackpot conspiracy theorists or psychopaths.

Sure, you can say “well, zero censorship except bots” - well that’s censorship, isn’t it? And given no anti-bot tactic is reliable, you’ll be blocking humans. Or you can say, “zero censorship except CSAM, or extreme pornography, or anti-terrorist” and you’re either applying societal laws or your own morality on others. You can’t use “no censor” and “except” in a sentence without contradiction.

If you want zero censorship, I don’t think Lemmy is for you. I don’t think the fediverse is for you. But if you disagree, then run your own instance and put it on an onion address, please stop trying to rant at us for not sharing your views.

Seems to be a lot of anti-UK articles being posted on Lemmy over the past few weeks. Games are being played.

I’d probably cut it off.

So, uh, are any of these ministers personally benefitting from the UK’s sale of arms to Israel?

Sounds good; known branded equipment is more likely to be compliant - but do check, it’s usually pretty clearly marked on packaging and listings.

Good answer.

Just chipping in to point out that there are a LOT of products listed as “POE” that don’t comply with any official standard, and are just designed as a single pair for lower end devices. So to echo your advice, do check for standards before buying.

25 years ago I got into playing Unreal Tournament.

I still talk daily with some of the people from that community across several countries. We’ve never met, never will, but we’ve shared stuff that our real families don’t know.

You’re not wrong.

Claudebot took down one of my sites repeatedly, hammering it for the same pages over and over at horrendous rates.

I ended up spending several days having to convert it to a SSG and hosted it on Cloudflare pages. A lot of work I didn’t need to do.

Honestly, time to talk to HR who I’m sure would have a quiet word with this manager.

This sounds like bullying, triggered by racism/xenophia/paranoia or just plain bigotry. And yelling at people? That’s terrible too.

Uh, the algorithm is what stops random crap. Tailoring just the right balance of stuff that does interest you, might interest you and fits the supplier’s aims is why Tiktok is so popular.

Given the content far outweighs your ability to view it, how would you imagine things would look without any algorithm?

More control to the tech bros.

Indeed, why not? Temugin was the GOAT at this game.

Global domination isn’t a new thing.

I agree. People are people. The racist tone of the original question and the judging of history by modern standards just underlines that.