Well, don't use that kind of social media, I suppose.
A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
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#112I'm in a local facebook group for my town where people post hiking pics, bird pics, local business updates, contractor recommendations etc. I am annoyed to see "brain rot" videos starting to take over the page. There is one dude promoting his succulent repotting/resale business and he's posted like 5-8 ai generated surfer dude monkey surfing and partying with his potted succulents just in the last week. I opened the…
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discu…
I'm leaving Reddit because of all this!
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!
If I accidentally did it Adsense would ban me.
Do it anyway! Then you have a case against them.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discu…
Maybe I'm in the minority, but with ad blockers I never see ads on Reddit. I honestly don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit at all, with a tiny exception for ads for other Reddit offerings, which is very recent for me. Not saying they're not on there, but the ad blockers must be doing a pretty good job on that site.
I don't usually see them either!
Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'
#116It's funny how multiple commenters here are reacting to this article by saying that older media is also bad when the article itself is about specific observations about how relying on AI and overengaging in social media can lead to detrimental outcomes. Ironically this tendency to form an opinion without investing time might also be a form of brain rot.
I don't really understand how they used "brainrot". I thought brain rot was this generations surrealism, a type of art?
By all means, study the detrimental effects of social media and AI on our brains but don't correlate it with people creating art just because.
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#117I'm in a local facebook group for my town where people post hiking pics, bird pics, local business updates, contractor recommendations etc. I am annoyed to see "brain rot" videos starting to take over the page. There is one dude promoting his succulent repotting/resale business and he's posted like 5-8 ai generated surfer dude monkey surfing and partying with his potted succulents just in the last week. I opened the…
I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! But everyone else in my life thinks it's great, and sometimes don't believe me when I point out it's obviously AI generated. I think people are already totally fooled and t…
I have the exact same response!
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discu…
I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are 1. Car crashes 2. Street/bum fights 3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails) 4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything") 5. Ant…
OK maybe try to escape the algorithm? This is different with Reddit, though. You'd have to figure out which settings you need to change.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
On modern social media, even if you had a group full of smart and reasonable people, the platform itself is injecting crap that may well drive out many of them. I rececently returned to Reddit since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies. I looked at the new-Reddit interface and shuddered: ads are being shown among comments, and many comments are hidden by defaul because apparently discu…
I first joined reddit in 2010 because it was the best place to see other people's minecraft creations. I no longer have an account but by far the most commonly suggested videos for me when I view the front page without an account are 1. Car crashes 2. Street/bum fights 3. Conspiracy theory content (UFOs, Anti-vax, chemtrails) 4. Anti-semitic videos (one such video was titled "Kanye was right about everything") 5. Ant…
It's wild how many fan subreddits end up turning into hate boards for the sub's alleged purpose.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
My favorite Reddit UX scam is that you tap on comments to collapse them along with their children, UNLESS they’re an ad that masks itself exactly like a comment in which case you tap it with the intent of collapsing it, but instead you inadvertently increase RDDT shareholder value (at the expense of the time you waste closing the webview)!
I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs
Where would you go to? Hacker new?