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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You’re missing the big impact here which is that bots can shift public opinion in mass which affects you directly.

    Gone are the days where individuals have their own opinions instead today opinions are just osmosised through social media.

    And if social media is essentially just a message bought by whoever can pay for the biggest bot farm, then anyone who thinks for themselves and wants to push back immediately becomes the enemy of everyone else.

    This is not a future that you want.


  • Mhm, I love dismissive “Look, it already works, and there’s nothing to improve” comments.

    Lemmy lacks significant capabilities to effectively handle the bots from 10+ years ago. Nevermind bots today.

    The controls which are implemented are implemented based off of “classic” bot concerns from nearly a decade ago. And even then, they’re shallow, and only “kind of” effective. They wouldn’t be considered effective for a social media platform in 2014, they definitely are not anywhere near capability today.







  • Just because you don’t want it doesn’t mean others don’t.

    And just because you don’t know much about the actual tech product itself doesn’t mean that it’s as narrow as you consider it to be.

    There is a ton of vapid hype that everyone including myself is getting sick and tired of. I’m more than happy to recognize that. However, there are still real world problems and continued advancements being made daily.

    It’s not all about LLMs either, there are many other types of science being done to develop improve and augment various other flavors of artificial intelligence. This has been a pretty constant trend for at least the last 10 years, we’ve just had a recent explosion in language capabilities with the introduction of generative AI. Thus fueling the hype.

    That’s a really weird stance that I keep seeing on here which is to be proud of being ignorant. Being proud of hating something without actually understanding what it is. Being proud of not knowing how something works so that you can be more contrare.


  • Have you ever used something they made? Did it meet your standard of being “good work”?

    I mean you’re ignorance of the products that they build or work on doesn’t precipitate their badness. Let’s start with the entire developer ecosystem that they have their hands deep in, it’s a pretty damn good ecosystem.

    You probably need to check your bias because it’s leaking, negatively affecting your decision making.

    Any company of this size is going to have shit products great products and literally thousands and tens of thousands of projects in between. You seem to be familiar with one product line, of hundreds or even thousands.