KelvarCherry [They/Them]

This is why it is so bafflingly stupid that Anyone is allowing a chatbot to do things. When that idea was first suggested, I and anyone else with a tragic faith in the intelligence of our society laughed it off as another absurd techbro idea, like all of the bullshit Musk and Zuckerberg spew on stage… but they did it ;-;

They made chatbots, an inherently unpredictable aggregation of all their training data, with systems that link that output to actual commands. This is the type of situation that would normally be deemed a Critical security breach on its own. In November of 2021, an exploit was found to run commands through maliciously-designed strings, exclusively in the Log4J Java debug logging library, and it was a red alert across the cybersecurity world. This is, like, the highest of high vulnerabilities, and for good reason!!!

Everyone who designs these chatbots should be sued to hell.

I agree all of those are terrible, and I hope it’s clear I didn’t ever even remotely consider voting for the guy; but you realize why none of those things really matter to the average American who is struggling to get by every day, right?

Like: mocking leaders’ deaths, mocking people with disabilities, having affairs with porn stars… – those are all terrible, inhumane, and “un-professional” things for the person to do; but when you’re desperate for some change and lost faith in the other party, it makes sense that voters would be willing to ignore those. Perhaps these aspects are indicators of what the guy would do in office; but most people in this country don’t think that deep into anything.

The involvement in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring is a powerful point because it hits just about every group with disgust. For the rest of this, I’d just focus more on Trump’s ties to Big Tech and Big Finance; because that’s the avenue that people feel the effect of. That and this country’s shitty Medical system.

the “Incredible Way”, from the article

The situation has gotten to the point where a baffling proportion of Gen Zers are going as far as to intentionally undermine their bosses’ AI initiatives…44 percent of polled Gen Z workers said they’re “sabotaging their company’s AI strategy in at least one way,” from entering proprietary company information into chatbots to refusing to use AI tools outright.

This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.

If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.

ohhhh fuuuuck the “troubled teen industry”. This is a nightmare of a can to crack open and the more you learn about it, the more you’ll hate the medical and legal systems in this country. Reader beware.

seriously… we’re talking about global elites who are raping and killing people. just say the words… ;-;

This is information suppression and narrative control. On top of algorithms influencing what results you see, you’ll now have a chatbot that can be even more strongly biased behind the scenes. Wouldn’t expect any better from Google / Silicon Valley. I’m sure the USA’s Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society are salivating at the thought.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/945530/Bohrdom/ <- This game was made by Cole Tomas Allen, if you want to support it.

Sounds like we have the same observations and feel the same frustrations about them. I look forward to being branded an agitator :')

Okay this is great that she’s free and all, but can we stop for a second and think about what happened here? A woman was grabbed off the street, beaten and brutalized (I’ve seen the arrest footage), and ripped out of her life, while being 100% peaceful and obedient.

I’m so sick of the one-sided violence, while we’re told to obey and be peaceful and whatever else.

A dozen will be an understatement. The tournament games span over a week. I think 100 is a closer figure, if FIFA doesn’t get their wish of ICE going on ‘vacation’.

I really hope fear of a terrorist attack shuts the event down. Not an actual terrorist attack—I don’t want ordinary civilians to die—but if Iran purposely “leaks” plans to bomb the stadium to the media, I hope that might wreck the World Cup attendance; or even better, get teams to pull out.

Probably 99% of the people who go to the World Cup will be fine.

Brazil has a huge Football (USA Soccer) scene and makes up a large percentage of World Cup tourism. Being dark-skinned Hispanics, they are exactly who ICE targets.

To be fair, a few teens rocked his shit. That aside, I’d copy your sentiment for every one of these murderous CEOs, politicians, and oligarchs. I’ll note that some brave souls do seem to be fighting back.

Nah I get all that, and I was never one for drama-bait or click-bait slop. I don’t particularly care for trends or social media at all. That last tangent was a little too out of the scope of the original discussion and a bit of a vent. Shutting off the world doesn’t change the world around me; doesn’t change the instability and unpleasantness of it all; though I do it many days anyways.

For the bigger picture, I generally think TikTok and other social media is how racism and misogyny got popular. I’m old enough to remember when it seemed Leftist ideas dominated the internet. That fell, and I attribute much of that to the low-attention atmosphere and the way rage and hatred can remain captivating in that information ecosystem.

Again, this content is not something I subscribe to; but that doesn’t stop them from gaining relevance. So I’m sick of all the constant stress; the stupidity of the masses; the absurdity of this all. “Polycrisis” is a term I recall reading in an article; and that’s what I’m feeling.

Content is whatever. I fully subscribe to “Don’t like it? Find something else”. I just wish the bigger problems in my life and the overall changes in the wider world and internet could be “turned off” like a video or TV channel.

I’m only half-understanding this post. I think I agree with the message. I’m fed up and angry with how draining and uncertain the world is, and the constant click-baiting over minor aspects that seem meaningless to the overall picture (USA perspective) are possibly a part in how things got this bad. Most days I wish I could “cancel my subscription” to the overall scene. Perhaps that exhaustion is why his writing is less than coherent, or why I’m not reading it well.

Yes. The forcing of Korean captives into Japanese soldiers’ “comfort women” is a common sore point in geopolitics between both Koreas and Japan. Japan has refused to give a real apology, and occasionally South Korea and Japan have visible clashes over the topic.

so there’s a lot of speculation that [Kick is] owned by one or multiple of the big gambling platforms and it’s operated as an advertisement for online gambling

It’s not speculation. Kick is backed by the online crypto gambling platform Stake, which you may know as the site that streamer BossmanJack loses all his money on in those viral clips.

I absolutely do not. I’m focused on one in-road to AI usage. My mind has been gravitating toward schools as they are run according to local government boards that people can reasonably challenge and get a seat on, and to whom the representatives are much more accountable and much easier to persuade.

It’s a lot more difficult to stop, say, a corporate middle manager from pushing AI on their employees. Though, to that point, employees can leave jobs, where students have much less agency over what the school curriculum is, and could be coerced into AI dependency by that school authority (which I have heard happening). Child and young adult brains are also far more malleable, and I fear AI dependency would have a worse, perhaps irreversible, effect.

Thank you for prompting me to clarify ^^

Perhaps they will. You will always have bad actors. My suggestions are really more focused on the messaging those kids get from schools.

I have heard that many students have gotten assignments on which one of the requirements is to use Text/Image generation, or for which they are a suggested tool. Stopping students from being encouraged to use AI is far more important (and far easier) than stopping every kid from cheating on assignments with it.