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My point is that people are far to apathetic about these things. Yes it’s a problem on X, but I’d sure love to see people recognize the same problems elsewhere instead of spreading their legs for anyone who mumbles vague platitudes towards their own pet issues.

They “trust me,” dumb fucks

an untrustworthy individual in charge of millions of people’s data via Xitter

As compared to all the trustworthy individuals running other social media sites?

I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough. Guess not.

Sounds like a good reason to seize greater control of the Internet other people’s computers.

Believe it or not, some people actually like having more than a single mono-culture in the world. Everybody everywhere doesn’t actually want Lego and the Marvel Universe to dominate their own societies.

Then we spy on our own citizens anyways. We just use 5E as an excuse if we ever find anything we want to use publicly.

Better force everyone to keep installing backdoors for law enforcement. To keep everyone safe.

Yes. You don’t actually get to explore other cultures, you just get a bastardized, commodified version of it. The commodification of cultures for global dissemination is destroying unique cultures around the globe. It’s a massive humanitarian crisis, but it gets a free pass in the eyes of the western public because they get to eat tasty food and make pithy comments online directed towards people they hate. Xenophilia is a cancer.

I’ve got news for you: Many people from other places don’t particularly like xenophiliacs treating them like zoo animals.

Many of those who do play along with it are trying to get something out of you. Shitty people exist everywhere.

Not much of a discussion when you’re just dismissing what I’ve said by presenting a completely fictional version of reality.

If you honestly believe that, you’re incredibly naive. If anything, they wouldn’t want to share what they have with those they see as idiots.

I’m not pretending that the LLMs we get aren’t terrible. Just wondering if there aren’t better AI being used by others more quietly.

What are the odds that all these stories about LLMs being terrible, and the crappy publicly available ones, are all just to convince us that they suck so nobody notices when actually good AI gets used?

Like a limited ‘fake’ world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, debt and contracts, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more powerful and pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.

Not anymore!

I mean, I do personally think that’s an issue, but I think that it’s an issue which has been thoroughly astroturfed so any time someone attempts to use that term to succinctly describe the issue it evokes an antagonistic paradigm which prevents discussion of the actual issues. That’s actually a great example of how social media and journalism can be used to pre-program the conversation, to prevent real discourse.

The important thing to recognize is that the types of people who do these things will gladly use any issue at all which happens to serve their purposes. Treating the world as though certain issues are always good and other issues are always bad will make you easy prey for those such as them.

There’s been an aggressive push against gaming recently. Check all the recent Steam news.

I mean, it’s just musing on what is possible. Certainly the motive exists to explore whatever is possible.

Hell, if you want conspiracy: They could train a generation from a specific culture on heroic epics, then train another generation of the global population with grievance porn to create villains.

You’re thinking in far too limited a scope. It can be as basic as implanting certain ideas about how tasks are performed through the structure of gameplay.

Hell, it could just be implanting newly developed subliminal messaging through background acoustics, or adjusting the general mood of themes.

It’s literally propaganda straight out of the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook, and useful idiots repeat it for them.

Be careful of joining in on overly-broad generalizations.