IMO tech bros’ main goal for this technology is to use it to manipulate public opinion on social media. It is perfect for it and the “daydreaming” (bullshitting) is perfect.

Notice that all social media are involved in it, Twitter was “sold” to xAI, the recent incident with Grok about South African apartheid. The 10 year ban to regulate it by states etc.

They talk about it increasing productivity (and are hoping that it could be used for that too), but if people would know it is meant for disinformation, they would be even more against skipping copyright for it.

I think the primary goal of LLM is to use it on social media to influence public opinion.

Notice that all companies that have social media are heavily invested in it. Also the recent fiasco with Grok taking about South African apartheid without being asked shows that such functionality is being added.

I think talking about it to replace white collar jobs is a distraction. Maybe it can some, but the “daydreaming” (such a nice word for bullshit) I think makes the technology not very useful in that direction.

This actually shows that they’re is work being done to use LLM on social media to pretend to be ordinary users and trying to sway opinion of the population.

This is currently the biggest danger of LLM, and the bill to prevent states from regulating it is to ensure they can continue using it

Turns out they have been using AI for decades.

They say that because they are selling it.

And yeah, my experience is the same. The most frustrating is when writing in a typed python, and it gives answers that are clearly incorrect, making up attributes that don’t even exist etc.

This is why you always block ads and trackers. It never pays to worry about revenue of “poor sites”

Did Zuck’s check not clear yet?

Because if they would publish it, the other security experts would say “well, duh, that’s how it works”.

It is just the average people that are unaware of it, or don’t seem to care.

Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

When I was working for an ad exchange, everyone had adblock installed in their browsers, I found that quite ironic.

True, but at least Lemmy let’s you view what the removed message was.

Why not? Is not like they are banning here for discussing Reddit.

Each time I see a new article about drop in sales, the percentage is higher. I love it.

Well the 3% is just interesting tidbit, but the video should be watched by everyone.

The main point is that we are being trained to not think independently and let the sites tell us what to think. Our current political situation is exactly because of this.

I think boring company wasn’t…

At least 4 and he himself: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

Section 230 allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google have mass media that’s also personalized to each recipient. You can influence anyone’s views by serving content that pushes their buttons.

They just use section 230 to be able to push any content, and section 230 protects them from consequences.

Why should they be protected this way? TV, radio, newspapers are liable for posting false information.

You think that social media gives you a platform, but since they decide what others see, this is just an illusion. Your content won’t be visible unless they determines it should be promoted.

This is likely why social media companies are so deep into generative AI. With it they no longer need people to generate specific content.

It’s also important to distinguish freedom of speech (protected by the first amendment) from free speech (a made up concept meant to bastardize on the former and to allow social media post whatever they want anonymously, like this ad).

That’s why I said removed or changed. It should be changed in a way that wouldn’t apply to big sites, but still could somehow buy used by hobbyists as it was intended to.

Though I’m quite sure his team will do the exact opposite.

It’s the feed that I think Facebook started, but everyone uses. You think you are posting things and your friends see them, but in reality Facebook (or whomever it is) really controls who sees it (if anyone).

You just have illusion that you have a platform when you don’t.

I think this is also the reason why social media companies are all deep into generative AI. With it they no longer need to even have humans produce content they want to show to others.

That section should be repealed or rewritten. It was originally meant so hobbyists running forms wouldn’t be responsible for content posted by the users.

Currently companies like Twitter, Meta, Google etc can control what is shown to users and hide behind this protection.

trump’s admin change will likely make it worse though.