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We're dismantling and selling every remaining bit of trust between strangers, hoping to cash out before it's completely gone. It seems like the only active use case for AI. More of everything! Spam everyone! Drown the world in noise! I'm just so tired.
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Sounds a lot like crypto.
Crypto always felt similarly cynical to me, but it was still somewhat niche. Now everyone must support AI because the entire economy is tied to it. Everyone's bonus depends on implementing it. Everyone's job search depends on cheering for it. It's like a virus.
The US president has crypto investments and shitcoins. His wife has a shitcoin. His weird sons have crypto businesses. (His former opponent's wisecracking prodigal-failson has an ironic shitcoin, for goodness' sake.)
The functioning of the US government and its international aid had a chainsaw taken to it by the richest man in the world, who named the entire endeavour ironically like a crypto memecoin.
One of the two biggest AI companies is run by a guy who also has a shitcoin-for-your-iris-scans company. And much of the long-tail of the AI industry is former crypto/NFT bros just wearing different turtlenecks. The big incubators and VC firms have moved smoothly from one niche to the other along with them.
These dead-eyed people are not niche at all. They are now the whole game.
We're dismantling and selling every remaining bit of trust between strangers, hoping to cash out before it's completely gone. It seems like the only active use case for AI. More of everything! Spam everyone! Drown the world in noise! I'm just so tired.
AI can be very helpful in lots of ways, but I think it's fair to say that it is most powerful as an enabler for bad actors.
Yes, the effects can be seen all over the Oscars.
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AI can be very helpful in lots of ways, but I think it's fair to say that it is most powerful as an enabler for bad actors.
"AI can be very helpful in lots of ways, but I think it's fair to say that it is most powerful as an enabler for bad actors." Yes, the effects can be seen all over the Oscars.
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The only long term solution I can see is the old PGP web of trust where people meet in person to exchange their public keys/certs.
The problem is not attribution. I can tell who generated the slop I encounter.
This is a real blogger, right? Cause the iLands guy has also been spamming his screenshots with exactly this kind of "what's this weird thing?" framing all over Reddit the past 2-5 days -- I have the misfortune of being subscribed to basically every AI sub, and my god is it bad. Sooo if you see iLands mentioned anywhere, please pass it along: it's trying to engagement hack you, in that exact moment. So, I say to the…
Any evidence it is an iLands-affiliated person making those posts? My timelines have been full of people I know complaining about the emails, and they're certainly not affiliated with iLands. Personally, I've been getting the iLands emails into my inbox too. It seems I might have entered onto the radar due to my posts being popular on Hacker News, as the message bodies reference my posts.
This is a real blogger, right? Cause the iLands guy has also been spamming his screenshots with exactly this kind of "what's this weird thing?" framing all over Reddit the past 2-5 days -- I have the misfortune of being subscribed to basically every AI sub, and my god is it bad. Sooo if you see iLands mentioned anywhere, please pass it along: it's trying to engagement hack you, in that exact moment. So, I say to the…