Hey, I can’t but I could build you a bot that pretends to be a beautiful young Eastern European / Thai (your choice) single woman looking for a husband with face pics, videos who needs a down-payment for a flight to visit you.

Sure, but it wasn’t really possible to code the stuff they wanted to at that time.

Does our brain follow manually coded instructions?

You probably had no idea the field even exists two years ago

MFW was using it ten years ago.

Please do and report back. There’s a significant difference between following manually coded instructions and ‘intelligence’.

No it can’t. It seems to be you that is confusing idiot speak with English.

“AI” has existed since the 70s in terms of computing. In terms of the theory, much further back.

This is not AI, just simple logic. This is how it should be done, and not with “AI”. I hope young coders don’t confuse logic with machine learning.

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.

I have about 300GB of personal data on the system

That’s a lot of porn!

First thing to do is to prune the data and remove what you don’t need. Be brutal (it really takes practise).

1. no they weren’t. no moving of goalposts
2. what’s my number then?
3. amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.

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.