The algorithms that manipulates your Facebook feed is Ai and yes that predated LLMs and chatgpt who turned this Ai craze into meaningless marketing term. When most people think of Ai they almost exclusively think of chatgpt, or grok. LLMs are not the only form of Ai, thats marketing hype and the same mechanisms that make us start refering to chatgpt or google as a verb. They don’t own a term that describes a vast arrange of software and technologies.

Yes Facebook have been using ai and manipulating peoples feeds for the benefit of their advertisers. This system was used to do a regime change in Egypt and thanks to Cambridge analytica essentially got trump elected the first time. You can say they’ve done it the human way for a long time, but thats not true it was a short period of time before they started training face tagging algorithms, systematically collecting data on you even when you don’t use a Facebook account, even something simple like changing from a organic feed to an algorithmic manipulation feed. Facebook has had Ai in it some from sort from the start, and all of it was and still is bad. I don’t know how to explain anymore clearly that just because LLMs exist now that doesnt mean Ai didn’t existed in the past. I can’t explain to you how much of Facebook has always been just ai data scraping, illegal nonsense.

I think you guys are getting caught up in wording because we are talking about the same thing. Maybe you guys didn’t use it back then and thought it was something more organic and akin to MySpace. It was like that for a year before they started doing weird privacy invading shit because they got inqtel funding. The only thing I don’t have a retort to is humans having to moderate content. I can tell you why we shouldnt use Ai but not a productive alternative.

Also I in no way want to let them off the hook, if anything I think their punishments should be worse or even excessive, for trying to pin their intentions on Ai and mysterious algorithms they pretend not to understand, yet they some how figured out how to abuse that algorithm for their ad partners. If I where to have it my way mark zuckerburg would be in prison already by a judge who insist on using maximum sentences for all possible crimes I can think of, and meta/Facebook would get a fine thats impossible to pay back similar to infowars.

Facebook is in a constant loop of firing employees and using the existing ones to train ai. Much of metas whole brand is algorithms (ai) and consuming your data while doing nothing about real systemic issues because they need your data to feed their ai and make ad revenu. I think its fair to say most of Facebook is just ai. They have LLMS, social manipulating algorithms for advertisers to exploit, facial detection, etc etc.

At the core its Ai just becoming a paper clip maximizer while willfully ignoring the obvious flaws, and instead choosing to double down. Now we have ai moderation in Facebook, and instead of banning porn ads, or direct scams they ban people for political speech with ai using basic keywords and image scanning tools which are wrong majority of the time. Thats another lawsuit Facebook is facing right now.

To me I don’t see how you can’t say ai is not a major contributor to this problem. Sure maybe if we hired back all the human employees nothing would change, but I don’t think expanding the systematic tools that are used to abuse you while continually ignoring the glaring issues like sex trafficking, csam, scams, drugs etc is a good look. You can’t tell me they have the ai tools now to ban tens to hundreds of thousands of people for a single word in a comment 5 years ago, but they can’t stop when their advertisers post csam? They know what they are doing and they are using algorithms to boost their ad revenue. This company has been found guilty in court for essentially rigging the election. They have bragged about manipulating peoples feeds to force their emotions to change to see of they make more profits. I don’t understand how you can’t see the facts I posted and not see how Ai is exaggerating these problems to the point of it being criminal.

If you are trying to make some kind of distinction between LLMs that chatgpt use, and the different between algorithms on a Facebook feed, I am happy to make the distinction. But in general artificial intelligence is a broad term, and covers all those. To pre-argue the next point Facebook does have LLMS that do the average chat bot stuff too, and yes Facebook has gotten in trouble for having them sext teens.

Its insane when I was in Texas I heard ads for power companies saying you get “free power” between certain times.

I can 100% seeing people get ai driven pricing that monitors your usage and charges you the most when you are at home or the least when you are at work or asleep.

Its a insane idea to privatize and commodify a utility like electricity like that. LLMs are kind of of the same mechanism but over information on the internet. Pretty soon the internet won’t be accessible unless you have some official google Facebook or whatever account tied to your ID. Every major website will just cease to function unless you sign in. Its pretty much already like that, I can’t see reddit anymore sense I got banned and always am on a VPN. Newpipe forces me to change my IP every 3-4 hours because YouTube suspects I’m a bot. The only way to access any information will be through a LLM, and you will pay out the ass for it and its going to be full of dark patterns to try to keep you on as long as possible, and feed you as much advertisements. And thats if they even show you real information and not elon musk/Prager u’s alternative history ai nonsense.

The internet is being dismantled as we speak, stolen, and then will repackaged to us in a form that is just a giant loot box. Like imagine having to constantly reroll your Claude code paying 10 bucks a spin so you can finish your gig work job done through some app. And you make 6 dollars after the LLM, and gig work app takes its fees. There where Israel gaming (gaming as in slot machines) companies that got kids addicted to video game gambling. They have numerous mobile slot machine apps for kids, and are apart of the gaming commission which heavily lobbied for gambling (lootboxes) in games. Then and the millennial adults addicted to kalshi, every one is programmed for this bullshit.

What’s funny is they are constantly pushings ads right now that says the google playstore is the safest place and has no malware. Ironically some around 60-70% of malware comes from the google playstore directly.

Yet google is pushing so hard for third party apps to not be able to be installed on android what soever. Meaning you HAVE to go to the playstore filled with malware, and can’t even use some FOSS github alternative.

Meta would let accounts reported for human trafficking purposefully remain active for 17 days or more if it helped with engagement.

So accounts where someone was potentially being trafficked and forced to prostitution where encouraged by meta to remain up for as long as possible.

Meta also is losing a lawsuit for being dangerous to teens. Yet every advertisement I get for them on YouTube, reddit etc claim they have saftey features for teens. Everything they say is the opposite.

Also this problem is mostly Ais fault.

Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.

As someone who recently started hoarding old tools I wish that was true for all things.

We just recently got a singer 500a and its still impressive the engineering that went into that thing. The machine work is beautiful, and if you told me it was made in a CNC machine today I would of believed you.

Today modern and new, just means slave labor and plastic molded parts. Besides computers a lot of things haven’t really changed. And often when they have changed it’s for the worst. If I get a sewing machine today it would come with some app and internet connection for no reason, and would have plastic parts that struggle to get through 3 layers of cloth. While the singer 500a was meant to run 24/7 and is essentially the same exact thing.

For the most part the world has kind of been solved sense shortly after the industrial revolution. All the general commodities we interact with where mostly at their peak form back then. Dish washers, fridges, washing machines, driers. They’re all almost exactly the same as they where when they where invented. There have been minor improvements that have been added over the years but for the most part things are in general just shittier.

You can blame so many things, you can say that mass production, trickle down economics, exporting labor etc all causes this. You can say that everyones access to mass produced garbage is an indicator of wealth and poverty dropping. What I don’t think you can say anymore is that things “products” are better than they where in the old days.

I agree with your statement about cultural aspects though. Other than that when I hear some new innovative product the first thing that comes to my mind is its going to be another internet of things device that constantly bugs me and asks for more data, while providing 0 utility over the old version of the product, if anything its going to add more friction to my task, or attempt to insert a paywall into my life where one never existed before.

With games its harder to objectively say things where worse/better, but this infection of syphoning money out of every possible source infects games too. The only reason I can’t say new modern games are bad is because indie games exist. Some of those indie games actually have brought me back to a childhood state where games where actually fun.

Thats not really fair. Morrowind was so buggy someone decided they needed to remake the entire game engine to play it. I wouldn’t say most games where like that.

You need a PC crack to the console so check mate atheist. Edit: also I’m just playing.

I know its April fools but the idea of having to buy then download a pizza code, to give to your pizza printer oven, that needed over-priced printer cartridges, that you couldnt refill with your own pizza sauce or cheese, does at least sound real.

Like realistically those dumb kuregs are not too far off from that. We could just add the internet to these things and charge your more for the things you already bought. Maybe each kuregg pod comes with a vanilla burst mode that can only be accessed if you have a subscription model, or pay 50 cents via the app on each cup of coffee.

These fast food companies are going to have to retire soon the way they are going. It cost more to go to McDonalds then going to a real sit down restaurant. And you get less food. Half the fast food places don’t even open up their sit down stores past 6pm anyways. you have to drive through or order from a shitty delivery app. At some point they are not going to have store locations and its just going to be selling their licensed food products to grocery stores or ghost kitchens. I could see fast food chains try to make fun novelty products like a counter top mc flurry machine, or the coca cola soda stream that tries to deliver you monthly syrup bags, or soft serve mix that used to go directly to McDonalds stores. Some bullshit with a touch screen and internet with promo codes and ads that always display to you.

Man its weird being on a platform where everyone has the same urge as me to explain very minute details about a very specific thing they know about and write 5 paragraphs about it.

If I would of known only the cool people ended up here I would of made my over a long time ago.

You aren’t even going to keep it for blowing out crumbs in your keyboard? I got one of those tornado air whip guns and I bust that thing out everytime I need to work on the car just because I like to play with it. I’ll bust out all the floor mats and blast the with air to avoid doing any real work.

Also I don’t like using tire inflators, you get a cheap 12v one and you burn out the motor trying to inflate all 4 tires at once. Its good to keep in the car for an emergency but it can’t be good for some of the smaller portable ones.

Its just so nice to have compressed air even if you don’t plan on using air impact tools. And just having the compressor opens you up to a whole new world of tools not even car related. Sand blasting, spray painting, roofing, framing. Mine also doesnt have enough cfm to do air wrenches but I still love the thing.

Smh my head. I have always heard “assless chaps” as if that was not the normal kind of chaps.

I still think it was a big mistake to bail out the auto makers. Now all cars are just giant phones with some how even worse privacy laws. “Saftey” tech just keeps getting forcefully regulated into them, making them more expensive and making shittier drivers who can’t even look in their blind spots anymore because those stupid blind spot detectors. We are pretty much at the point where we have Vin lock parts and can’t replace a windshield motor without paying 1.8k to bring it back to the manufacturer, and thats BEFORE the labor from their licensed tech who is the only person who can touch the god damn thing I own and I will be paying off for 48 months at 450 dollars a month.

Oh but don’t worry I think its ford themselves that have a patent for self driving cars to be able to repo themselves. So the the poor dealership that fucked me over won’t lose any money when I can no longer afford payment on some of the shittiest trucks they’ve made.

Don’t get a car or truck past 2013. Honestly peak cars IMO all existed around 90s-2006. Some good hits in the 80’s too but you’re prob not going to daily something that old. You all are going to want to learn how to work on your own car. If you don’t have the tools and a shop it sucks a bit more and is sketchy sometimes, try to make a car friend or have people to ping off of. You can rent a lot of the tools too but I would insist on buying if its not like 300 bucks all at once. You want a good air compressor, a 12v battery charger/tester, a standard craftsman set, some ramp blocks/jacks, and the basic hand tools and you can do most things just fine.

So much of learning how to fix a car is kind of just having to fix it. I’ve only had 4 cars ive had to fix and daily drive sense ive started trying. And I came from practically no knowledge. YouTube surprisingly has had every single fix I needed for my exact model, and I would just google my problems and end up on forums from literally 2008 with the exact same problem and it was ususally solved. Most of the time its just replacing sensors, replacing gaskets, changing fluids or cat converter. Sometimes it doesnt fix it, so you just replace the next suspected thing.

Bikers are pretty gay. Like leather daddy, a real man’s man kind of gay. Smoke meth and fuck for 16 hours straight gay in your musky assless chaps.

Doing anything in excess to the point of addiction is wrong. And what I notice is that typically closeted republicans who think being gay or trans people are the worst are usually only think that because they are suffering from sex addiction and must think every gay person is like that. Not understanding that no its only them thats the monster, and can’t seem to comprehend that normal people can just love eachother and have normal gay sex without it becoming a crippling addiction. Their brains have to equate it to a disease before their brain would even let them consider they are just the shitty person.

Its like the same argument in my mind as people needing religion as a frame work to even be able to comprehend the concept of morality, as it couldn’t exist without an Omnipotent father figure (sky daddy) to whoop your ass if you even thought about stepping out of line.

Kind of lost excitement after the price tag. If Xbox and Sony raised their prices first I feel like maybe the public would of received the steam machines price better. Its still too much for me regardless, I don’t need one just wanted one as a fan boy.

Also its the steam frame that is the more important one in my mind.

Look up gamehub (don’t use it though it’s made by game sir I think) they are already using fex and you can play games like red dead 2 at 60fps 720p on a pocco phone.

Like a year or two down the line the verification system for the steam frame will be super matured and you will just be able to play the games on your phone. Fex could potentially even help inspire someone to make a arch based operating system for phones so we have something other than Ubuntu touch and postmarket os. And it would be able to run pretty much any application. A lot of native Linux apps are already ported to arm like blender, being able to run exes and video games helps a lot.

I wish I could express to you guys how much proton matured sense the release of the steam deck and the constant work with the verification program which helps them further fix proton. It was like maybe half my library that worked, and not super well when I got my q1 steam deck. Now I don’t even check proton db before buying a game, besides few multiplayer games everything just works. So much of the world is going to arm and x86 is on its way out.

I got banned recently too from some auto mod. You get flagged for mentioning the current events and being against them, and you then anything construed as even the slightest bit of violence or talking bad about Israel, trump, ai etc then you get auto banned.

Didn’t bother to appeal because fuck them at this point. My only regret is everytime I am on Lemmy I feel as if its wasteful of time. Everyone here already agrees with me, and the sub’s are surprisingly focused on things I enjoy. Don’t get me wrong its perfect, but I don’t feel like im moving forward in anyway. I think I need to be on reddit bullying maga and people who suck off billionairs.

Reddit feeds it’s data into gemeni, chatgpt, and a few other llms. They can’t have us poisoning their information with “bad information” and need to kick out any bad actors ruining their control on the flow of information. If you google some obscure fact or something and the only source for that info is on reddit then google will proudly display that as fact. If this kind of post happens numerous times, and at least 10-20 people comment parroting the same thing, google believes it more. Look up if brace beldon can dunk on a regulated basket ball hoop. It helps more if its a unique sentence, or fact that can’t be confused with anything else.with misinformation, It takes real people in a third party country to sift through and verifiy if its true or not, ai is not some oracle of truth.

Someone needs to be there bullying people that are doing the same thing but for maga, elon musk, Sam Altmann. You want to bully the basement dwellers out of these spaces and make being against facisim cool, funny, and seem like the chads. People gotta be out there making these losers become the new “sjws” or wokes. Growing up this kind of shit infected my friend groups and created kind of this alt right pipe line. Someone has to be out there targeting the largest demographic on YouTube and these other cultural spaces like reddit, which is always high school kids. Someone has to be the edgy but woke version of Andrew Tate or whatever the fuck charlie kirk was supposed to be. Someone’s gotta fight on their level by ignoring facts and just making them look dumb and attacking their character. You have to make them seem like the woke babies so no one aspires to be that, and if they do they will get bullied. Bots can’t do that, humans can make memes that explain a thousand concepts in a single image. Humans can cut deep and hit your insecurities in a way an llm couldn’t comprehend. We have the house advantage here.

Every comment on any platform should be memes about the epstine files, memes of JD Vance face, people getting bullied for publicly supporting A or, B. The more memes and comments they ban, while reporting the opposite of what is true more people will become radicalized. More than anything people hate being directly lied to and won’t forget it. If not that, its going to be grok or chatgpt saying its nessisary to destroy Gaza because trump needs to build is hotel there and no one will question it, or if they do they are just banned.

Well I’m not going to stop using it until i’ve seen another VPN get raided and verified to not hand out my data.

Shit sucks but I’m not aware of any other VPN that doesn’t have accounts, and let’s you pay without a credit card.

Tim Sweeny is the biggest loser out there next to elon musk.

At that point just use Linux. I remember even in windows 10 trying to debloat windows with numerous scripts, and different base iso. If anything it made windows more unstable and even more useless, more than it actually helped.

I know change is hard but its really easy, especially if you are mad, and carry that energy with you.