True. Only successful twice, but stupid three times.

They voted for trump didn’t they ? Twice. There’s your answer.

Meta is an advertising company. AI is the tool that they can use both to read every post and identify the categories each user will be most receptive to, and also to create customised advertising tailored to that user.

For example, the AI notices that your attention lingers a little longer on user posts about travel, and then inserts an advert into your stream which looks indistinguishable from those posts and which encourages you to take that overseas holiday you’ve been thinking about.

From there, it becomes even more incidious. Advertising is about promotion and persuasion, and word of mouth is a very effective persuasion tool, so imagine the AI becomes your ‘friend’, or at least one of the AIs many personalities does, because it can post from millions of accounts, each of which can slightly alter your worldview, biases, morals, and influence your needs, your desires, and so on. Now it’s not just inserting an advert into your post stream, it’s actively participating in the content. Each post is unique to you - while you see posts from your ‘friends’ who are thinking about about travel to Antarctica, someone else sees stories about replacing tiles on their roof.

AI can collate a sequence of posts about climate change and then need to move away from fossil fuels, in order to persuade someone who it already knows feels strongly about that topic, in order to encourage them to buy a new car, and not just any car, but a particular brand. It might even subtly offer a discount that the advertiser has authorised it to do, for example, mentioning that they saw a dealer just down the road from you has one car left in stock at a huge discount, but it will surely be gone soon.

This is why Google (for example) is pushing gemini hard - it wants it to become everyone’s friend and trusted source of information, because once they’ve achieved that, they can use it to subtly drop hints about products in its responses - nothing obvious, that would trigger the skip button, but just a careful comment here, another one there, a post about how a “user” had problems getting a particular brand of car repaired, and so on and so on.

It’s all about ad revenue, and you’re the product.

That’s right… so…you’re agreeing with me ?

Take a look in the mirror. Your arrogance and misplaced confidence is showing up like a lighthouse.

Oh my god, you don’t agree with someone on the internet, so rather than reply to what I said, and explain why you think I’m wrong, you just call me names and belittle me. How mature of you.

An outward display of emotion? I don’t see how that works in this context.

I originally took it to mean she has an effect on the children, but maybe they meant affectation, as in she speaks in an unusual manner. That fits a lot better, but isn’t what they wrote.

Pity they can’t spell the word effect (Edit: or perhaps they meant affectation?). Maybe they need to watch a bit more peppa pig

You sound like a hoopy frood

Do not underestimate the power of the dishwasher.

Ah the hyper-inflation doomsday gun

I suspect there is a great deal of crossover between maga supporters and flat earthers

The fundamental problem with online voting is that putting the data online even in an isolated manner immediately creates the potential for a small attack to affect large numbers of votes, which is much less cost effective an attack than when they’re on paper and physically distanced.

Someone will inevitably mention the Tom Scott voting machines video, whenever this topic comes up, so it may as well be me today.

That’s because it’s bathed in light.

I want to live in the timeline where they gave it to Al Gore.

Please ?

They’re trying to argue that her father (deceased) committed immigration fraud by misstating her age, making his citizenship invalid, and therefore hers also, as it resulted from his fraud. It’s an absolutely idiotic argument for many reasons, and would never stand up in court, which leaves intimidation as the main point.

Dear cheeseburdler…

They’re the output of all that data centre processing. The model is fixed at that point and can’t “learn” anything more, so the pressure is always on to release a newer model that resulted from more data with better algorithms, but still small enough to be able to run on a consumer grade GPU

Lol

Really? I thought they were just different focal lengths, so that you can “seamlessly” zoom across a range that a single lens wouldn’t be able to manage.

They reset all your settings after an upgrade and remove the options to turn them back on.