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A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by Mars008 »

randycupertino wrote: post #7

I'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…

Have you seen sci-fi movies? It's all fake! And people are happy with this. Same here, it becomes annoying only after some time. Most didn't get to this point yet. By the time they get quality will be better, so like new again. After that even adults will have hard time telling apart reality from generated. Like little kids believe dreams are true.

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by yen223 »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #93
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #15

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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…

People thought video games would turn people violent, turns out it was social media that did it

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by yen223 »

randycupertino wrote: post #7

I'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…

Those comments are probably AI as well

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

Loughla wrote: post #139
anukin wrote: post #110

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The biggest problem is that Lemmy is no substitute for Reddit. Majority of it is run by tankies and people professing extreme left views.

I'm saying you don't even need a substitute. Genuinely looking back, I was more anxious when I would browse reddit in my free time. I promise, disengage from social media (and the doom news cycle for that matter) and you'll be happier, or at least you'll worry about stuff you can control instead of stuff you can't. Except hn. Never disengage from hn.

Since I use the fedi in other ways, and I'm still here, it isn't necessary. Is it fun to test? sure!!

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

nekusar wrote: post #129
anukin wrote: post #110

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The biggest problem is that Lemmy is no substitute for Reddit. Majority of it is run by tankies and people professing extreme left views.

"Extreme left" said by someone likely from the USA is slightly left-of-center basically anywhere else. The USA democrats and "left" have been overton window'ed so hard that a actual democratic socialist, Mamdani, is compared to being a communist. https://nypost.com/cover/november-5-2025/ There's also hundreds of Lemmy federated servers. I'm sure some are actual communist. But there's plenty for all walks of life. And…

Well you can choose to affiliate with another party. I did so. I was unaffilaated for years, though!

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

rurp wrote: post #31
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #15

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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 don't know how anyone can use the official reddit mobile app for more than 5 minutes. Between the ads and terrible interface it's an awful experience. But I also hate facebook so I'm clearly not the target audience for this stuff. RedReader is a much better interface but lately has been having issues for me so I just haven't been using reddit. If and when they kill that client I'll be done with the platform.

I hate Facebook with a passion! Mostly because my family is there, and they're constant lecturers.

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

Espressosaurus wrote: post #18
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #15

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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…

Old reddit is unfortunately just a rounding error. I weep for the day they decide to kill it.

I'm sure they're going to eventually. They say they won't, but they deprecated private messages. Yeah, I did use those lol.

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #54
dingnuts wrote: post #22

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weep? I'd finally be free. I wish this site would disappear too. Whoever designed these algorithms got me good, at a young age, and I don't think these sites have been a net positive overall or on me personally

We are already free. If we keep returning to a few subreddits, it's because we can't find an equivalent community elsewhere. If they kill the old interface, we'll eventually use the new one if there are no other alternatives, no need to lie to ourselves.

Nah, I just leave. Because I want too, and because I don't like Reddit's AI training ppolicies.

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

damnesian wrote: post #158
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #15

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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 never use the app, only login to old. and when old is taken away, I will take my marbles and go home.

I don't either! Mostly because I don't use many apps anyway. I like the web.

Re: A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'

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Post by webspinner »

stdclass wrote: post #106
HeinzStuckeIt wrote: post #15

Earlier 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…

> since there are no other remaining discussion venues for one of my hobbies maybe you find a suitable board on 4chan

Lol or just create one.
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