

- AI slop != spam
- No one can tell the difference between AI slop and real people.
- Creating hundreds of AI posts in seconds/minutes is possible, but easily detectable. People have the smarts.
I don’t get it. An OS is to help you do stuff and not get in your way. Why do people argue over which is the best one to use and why is it Debian? No one cares what you use, just shut up and be productive.
Nope. After 2010s proved that the internet is the central location for political battles with Wikipedia Blackouts causing major political shifts, Pandoras Box has been opened.
The internet is now the premier location for propaganda and politicalization.
This is only true if people feed the monster.
Gen AI writes posts that can use specific dialects, that you would never be certain/realise. Hence the whole people-thinking-it’s-the-thoughts-of-a-real-person-and-peer-pressure manipulation aspect.
If Gen AI algorithms are having difficulty with it also being used as training data due to the large amounts of it around, you can bet that you’ve read at least a few posts / comments each day written by gen AI.
I think you’re missing the point of the post. Or maybe the personal insult is the action of a bot to encourage other personal insults against me as a form of manipulation of others to build a group against me?
Regarding pointing out examples of posts made by bots, that is just a waste of time! No one will know for certain, people will argue, those bots will argue, other bot accounts with the same agenda will argue, people will be manipulated, they will argue, and status quo returns…
By talking about ‘anything of substance’ is being framed by the bot posts, repeatedly, to manipulate. But, take a step back and you’ll realise it really isn’t ‘anything of substance’ but something to distract.
As for the early internet, I think you’re thinking about early pre-banhammer-FBI-raid 4-chan.
Just to be clear, I’m not accusing lemmy (whoever / whatever that is as a 'thing) of adding messages, but bad actors are doing so to control the short-term narrative for (perhaps, mainly) capitalist reasons.
Kinda like propaganda gone wild. A Cambridge Analytica’s former employee book, mindfuck is a good read.
signal accounts… signal accounts everywhere!
perfect for the everyday user
…because of course, they don’t need privacy, do they now. “Nothing to hide” and all that jazz.
But like TOR, can entry / exit nodes be used to tie the two ends together through e.g. timing attacks?
The messages are private and that’s what’s most important.
No, that isn’t true. WhatsApp has the same lies. Law enforcement connect communication between users at key times and use it as credible evidence. Why would drug exporter 1 be communicating with drug buyer 1 at the exact time the delivery arrives in the country? Law enforcement doesn’t need to know what was written.
Phone numbers are one way. Paid accounts are another.
Rubbish. How would this stop bots? Bots are created to make money. What makes you think creators don’t have a phone number, or be prepared to pay to spam.
huh? so the phone number is encrypted in a way that can’t be read, but an sms is sent to the phone? … a separate company sends the text on behalf of signal? so that separate company logs the phone number, the timestamp and who knows what else.
But the police request the meta data of all messages from your phone number that the company has and they’re required by law to give them it.
This is what the UK police do with WhatsApp data. Even though they can’t read the messages, they do use the connections of messages to suspicious characters as evidence including date and times, which also puts these other people in the spotlight, opening further investigations.
The UK police can also use ‘stinger’ devices that are “fake” mobile data towers to intercept mobile communications.
opening the discussion again is just tiring.
so tiring that i opened it and read it, then typed a long response.
… but why require numbers in the first place.
What advantage does Octave / Matlab have over say python and matplotlilb? Jupyter notebook would offer a more interactive experience if necessary.