Great, now Putin will have absolutely no way whatsoever to spread his propaganda on Facebook!

“We’re a scientific research company. We believe in open technology. Wait, what are you doing? Noooooo, you’re not allowed to study or examine our program intelligent thinking machine!”

Well, we know they’re pretty good at spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories, so it makes sense. Too bad the humans using them seem more motivated to spread patanoia than to correct it.

Look, i’m not saying that this isn’t a problem. My only question is, is this one of those “global warming is because people don’t recycle their soda bottles” things? In other words, How concerned should I be about this vs, taking attention away from the energy, beef, and transportation industry?

How do we keep forgetting over and over again as a society that people are spreading bigotry and conspiracy theories ON PURPOSE? We keep deluding ourselves into believing that if we just get the right tool to properly educate people then the problem will go away.

LLMs can and are being used to spread misinformation and propaganda and conspiracy theories and bigotry at least as rapidly as they can counteract it.

Big "but"s

I guess the same way you slice something into one piece. Bisect is one less than trisect, so what’s one less than bisect?

Maybe the problem is that the phone is rectangular. I bet they could do it with a polygon with just two fewer sides. ;)

Bifold means something that folds into two parts. Consider the bifold wallet or bifold door.

That seems to be the case.

Have we tried turning the universe off and on again?

Yelp is a garbage platform that abuses small businesses and manipulates reviews.

David and Goliath it ain’t.

Seems like it would be better to have government buy-in to federated platforms. There are some governments that have moved their official announcements to Mastodon, which is a good start.

What the Fediverse really needs to ensure longevity is government and journalist support.

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Ever seen the discussion on a government Facebook page where they’re not legally allowed to block trolls?

I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Is this the most downvoted post on Lemmy?

So… Gay dudes hooking up?

I can’t think of a single social media platform that hasn’t required me to search how to use it at some point. Twitter was like, “So I can send a text message to a website about what kind of soup I had for lunch? I don’t get it.” Facebook is regularly full of posts by people who don’t understand the platform. The internet itself had celebrity ads, and morning news show explainers.

The Fediverse in general does require a different way of thinking. More importantly, it requires advertising (or publicity, anyway). That is one big advantage corporate media will always have - ad money. But the Fediverse has us.

Logi CEO: “Heh, yeah, well you know, there is a rich tradition of tech companies pranking the public with silly, unexpected practical jokes on April 1.”

“But sir, it’s August.”

“Oh, well I guess that’s what makes it so unexpected, heh. Yeah. Unless you want a mouse subscription? No? Oh, just forget that I asked - that was, ah, part of the joke. Apr- August Fools!”