so I ran into this fucking garbage earlier, which goes so hard on the constituent parts of "the spam is the point", an ouroborosian self-reinforcing loop of Just More Media Bro Just One More Video Bro You'll See Bro It'll Be The Best Listicle Bro Just Watch Bro, and the insufferably cancerous "the medium is the message" that if it were a voltron it'd probably have its own unique Special Moment sequence instead of being one of the canned assembly shots
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I wish YouTube would ban this shit wholesale, but it’s Google and of course they won’t.
Aside: I’ve been hammering “Don’t recommend this channel” on every video that remotely smells like AI slop for a while and so far that seems to keep the feed fairly clean.
if/when I use youtube, I use it entirely statelessly (and thus also without account)
it's a remarkably good way to see some utter lunacy, but it also precludes that option of dealing with shit
Yeah. I ran without an account for the longest time (and used alternative frontends like Freetube, Invidious, yt-dlp, etc.) but I caved and made one just so I could curate my feed.
it's this bullshit again isnt it https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/
Among other things, probably
re the youtube phenomenon, ran into this as an interesting post recently, although fuck if I can remember where I saw it
From the "flipping through LessWrong for entertainment" department:
What effect does LLM use have on the quality of people's thinking / knowledge?
- I'd expect a large positive effect from just making people more informed / enabling them to interpret things correctly / pointing out fallacies etc.
You'd think the AI safety chuds would have more reservations about using GPT, which they believe has sapience, to learn things. They have the concept of an AI being a good convincer, which, hey, idiots, how have none of you thought the great convincing has started? Also, how have none of you realised that maybe you should be a little harder to convince in general???
It is a long-established truth that it's significantly easier to con someone who thinks they're smarter than you. Also as I think about it a little bit there seems to be a reasonable corollary of their approach towards Bayesian thinking that you not question anything that matches your expectations, which is exactly how you get taken advantage of by the kind of grifter they're attached to. Like, they've been thinking about the singularity for long enough that the Sams (bankman-fried, Altman, etc) have a well-developed script for what they expect the first stages to look like and it is, as demonstrated, very easy to fake that.
The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading
i think it was posted somewhere in techtakes https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
yeah, I posted in previous stubsack I think
I hope everyone is ready for the constant overlap between politics and AI / Silicon Valley; because I'm not.
Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders (Source Bluesky Thread).
I'm not 100% sure I buy that the EOs were written by AI rather than people who simply don't care about or don't know the details; but it certainly looks possible. Especially that example about the Gulf of Mexico. Either way I am heartened that this is the conclusion people jump to.
Aside: I also like how much media is starting to cite bluesky (and activitypub to a lesser extent). I assume a bunch of journalists moved off of twitter or went multi-platform.
Isn’t this one of the things that LW was spooked by? Giving the reins to an AI? Won’t someone think of the wrongers???
Thanks, I hate it.
Especially because Trump's legal teams have historically been more than incompetent enough to produce this kind of work on their own.
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yeah bsky is where journalists post now so it's where they scrape stories from
Xcancel is giving me issues so gimme a sec. That said: another killing. https://x.com/st_rev/status/1882852779582239053
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69573795/5/1/united-states-v-youngblut/
More details. The feds were watching them.
rat death squads are a thing now? this wasn't on my 2025 bingo
Is there any rundown on this backstory for people who missed it happening live over the last few years that doesn't get sidetracked into theological disputes with the murder cult?
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