Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Off topic:
Went to Bonnaroo this weekend and didn't have to think about weird racist nerds trying to ruin everything for four whole days.
It was rad af and full of the kind of positive human interaction these people want to edit out of existence. Highly recommend.
I have no context on this so I can't really speak to the FSB part of the remark, but on the whole it stands entertaining all by itself:
you gotta give it to them, they know their suckers when they see one
lmaoo
FSB was and still is responsible for mass influence campaigns on western social media. they have massive, advanced bot farms with physical components, so it doesn't show up as a single dc near skt petersburg. look up internet research agency
example of that kind of activity (busted) https://therecord.media/ukraine-police-bust-another-bot-farm-spreading-pro-russia-propaganda
oh yeah I'm aware of the trollfarm problem in general, just meant I had no specific data in this specific instance
well to be a little bit more specific, wasn't that crazy that in first months of war (after march 2022 i mean. but some of that showed even before that, and after 2014) antivaxxer fb accounts started spreading antiukrainian propaganda. what a coincidence
dot eth crowd gotta be similarly compromised, among some others
nothing specific, it just intensified due to war
for the cyrillic-inoportuned, the prompt is “you will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak english”.
facebook caught intimidating brazilian researchers - they found scam ads falsely referring certain brazilian federal programme https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/16/meta_ads_brazil/
Asked to comment, a Meta spokesperson told The Register, "We value input from civil society organizations and academic institutions for the context they provide as we constantly work toward improving our services. Meta's defense filed with the Brazilian Consumer Regulator questioned the use of the NetLab report as legal evidence, since it was produced without giving us prior opportunity to contribute meaningfully, in violation of local legal requirements."
translation: they knew we would either squash the investigation attempt outright or change their research methodology and results until we looked like the good guys, and that kind of behavior cannot be tolerated
This is quite minor, but it's very funny seeing the intern would-be sneerers still on rbuttcoin fall for the AI grift, to the point that its part of their modscript copypasta
Or in the pinned mod comment:
AI does have some utility and does certain things better than any other technology, such as:
- The ability to summarize in human readable form, large amounts of information.
- The ability to generate unique images in a very short period of time, given a verbose description
tfw you're anti-crypto, but only because its a bad investing opportunity.
in that thread: marketing dude who uses chatgpt, never had issues with incorrect results. i mean how would he even catch this, his entire field is uncut bullshit
Gross, that whole thread is gross. A lot of promptfans in that thread seemingly experiencing pushback for the first time and they are baffled!
While it's always correct to laugh at crypto advocates, /b/buttcoin just isn't very edifying lately. There's no depth to the criticism. It comes across as the "anti" version of wall street bets for people who lost their shirts, especially since The Appening, when a lot of subject matter experts left town.
ours is much better, it has the true buttcoin scorn without bothsidesing
accept no substitutes!
i came here from r/buttcoin and lmao
i mean technically it passes the very low bar of having a single non-criminal use case (mass manufacturing spam and other drivel)
some are not falling for it at least
Not a big sneer, but I was checking my spam box for badly filtered spam and saw a guy basically emailing me 'hey you made some contributions to open source, these are now worth money (in cryptocoins, so no real money), you should claim them, and if you are nice you could give me a finders fee. And eurgh im so tired of these people. (thankfully he provided enough personal info so I could block him on various social medias).
I got the same thing.
From a guy called N... Vi...? (I'm not going to further call the guy out, that is just a bit weird to hate on a single weird person).
fuckit, name and shame. it's not like they gave a shit about your privacy
Nah, im good.
Possibly tea.xyz or similar.
Basically the guy famous for the ~~binary tree invert algorithm~~ Homebrew package manager thought it would be a great idea to incentivize spammy behavior against open source projects in the name of "supporting" them.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-causes-open-source-software-spam-problems-again
binary tree invert
happy pride month
starknet-io actually, so there is more of this crap.
Could be the system the commenter posted to is having trouble federating to your instance. So their comment is federated from their system to the community instance, but not from the community instance to yours.
Edit: nevermind, this is all on the same instance.
also featured here a few weeks ago, check the local search for some more things
I hadn't paid enough attention to the actual image found in the Notepad build:
Original neutral text obscured by the suggestion:
The Romans invaded Britain as th...
Godawful anachronistic corporate-speaky insipid suggested replacement, seemingly endorsing the invasion?
The romans embarked on a strategic invasion of Britain, driven by the ambition to expand their empire and control vital resources. Led by figures like Julius Caesar and Emperor Claudius, this conquest left an indelible mark on history, shaping governance, architecture, and culture in Britain. The Roman presence underscored their relentless pursuit of imperial dominance and resource acquisition.
The image was presumably not fully approved/meant to be found, but why is it this bad!?
Microsoft announced that 2024 will be the era of the AI PC, and unveiled that upcoming Windows PCs would ship with a dedicated Copilot button on the keyboard.
Tell me they're desperate because not many people use that shit without telling me they're desperate because not many people use that shit.
I mean notepad already has autocorrect, isn't it natural to add spicy autocorrect? /s
Sure you have used autocorrect, but have you heard of its better brother? autolesscorrect?
autoincorrect
embed in the orange site so hacknernewses can incorrect each other automatically
morewrong.ai
feels like it’s lining up to be the WinME of this decade