I guess this is like #7 or so on the “Jobs that cause ejaculation” list?
I guess this is like #7 or so on the “Jobs that cause ejaculation” list?
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
Enshittification. Once you learn it, you see it everywhere. It’s depressing.
It says, “The, Bart, the.”
Right. They’re planning to release a new version of the game with microtransactions and likely some crypto who knows what because they were able to snipe the trademark.
Upvoting despite the Xitter link because people need to know about the scummy shit going down with Flappy Bird.
I’m not a lawyer but I’m not sure how liable you’d be. People run bots all the time. Plus, this is all about numbers. You can’t sue thousands of people like that.
Ooh, that’s nice. Now change “omnivorous” to “targeted” and things get interesting.
Thanks, friend!
Welcome to dystopia. Jesus Christ this is bleak shit.
I was just wondering about a general privacy goal of having an LLM bot just flood the zone with random data to try and confound advertising models, simulating clicks and likes/engagement across the spectrum just to wreck any meaningful data correlations.
If you were aiming this concept at two specific targets, i.e., costing the Trump campaign money and screwing with their data, things could get really interesting. Like an open source bot that would coordinate bizarre trends across large cohorts of users to convince the data miners that, for example, a disproportionate number of voters in key regions are demographically or behaviorally skewed.
Oops. Her. I was thinking of a DIFFERENT vile extremist troll. Sigh.
Are anyone else’s comments showing up twice?
Are anyone else’s comments showing up twice?
Look, I think it’s important to state here that while you can often offer prompts to strangers with no ill effect, 7% of strangers are DEATHLY ALLERGIC to prompts. I know it’s fun to give your strangers prompts sometimes, but I urge you all NOT to give prompts to strangers or you run the very real risk of harming them seriously.
Signed, A strangerologist
Dividing them between what, which cabinet position to give her?
Edit: wrong bigot
Same probably. I think the Switch has been so successful they won’t risk doing much to the form factor or features. So I’m fully braced for the Nintendo equivalent of a new iPhone. And I’m 3 generations behind on that now, and not all that worried about it.
The good news here is that Valve is privately owned. Investors are typically what drives enshittification. Granted, pure selfish profit motive can do similar, but fortunately Steam is massively profitable and sustainable as-is, whereas enshittification is based on suffering unsustainable losses up front to capture users.
The bigger issue is the effective monopoly they have, and that’s currently something that’s starting to rumble a little.
Nintendo has kinda been shitty lately with their insane litigiousness too, but they’re the only ones giving a really good reason to buy their console. The Switch 2 so far is sounding like “faster Switch with minor QoL improvements” so it’s hard to get excited about that too.
Fingers crossed, but I’m not holding out much hope. I think Microsoft might slowly shift the console industry toward PC handhelds and set top form factors eventually. At least they will if they’re smart, I think.
I appreciate that you’re signal boosting “weird” but I think this is full-on “shitty”.