Sure. But I can make my own AI image of a cute dog, and where’s the satisfaction in that?

Hence, I think it cracks open a bigger issue than AI: the ‘illusion’ of authenticity on social media. Our squishy brains doomscroll with the fantasy that the stuff is real, and candid, and honest, and gems we found…

But that’s never really been true.

It’s largely staged content designed to go viral and make someone a buck. Or sell something. And it’s served by billion dollar algorithms designed to model and hijack your brain.

My hot take: people are upset that slop smashed that illusion with a hammer. Social media has been addictive fakeness for years; it’s just glaringly obvious now.

I have a business idea:

Vintage social media.

Only media that verifiably exists on the internet before 2021 is allowed. That’s still billions of cute animal photos and videos.

EDIT:

And a sister project: RAW-only social media. Only photo/video uploaded as raw sensor data (which even phones can take now) is allowed. Metadata is stripped, and they’re post-processed by the site.

Why? RAWs are technically possible to fake, but difficult enough to deter lazy slop spam. As a bonus, they can’t be heavily edited either; they’re unprocessed, unglamourous slices of reality. And they can be served in HDR with modern compression, as a cherry on top.

…Now I just need a few billion dollars to host it, and about a trillion to survive anticompetive attacks.

No Linux client for that either, though it seems to be planned.

That is exactly how I read it in my head, yes.

A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.

If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?

I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.

In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.

I don’t even see “Big Media” like Reuters or local news or whatever get upvoted much. And as longs as the news sections aren’t mixed up with the opinion ones, IMO they’re more professional.

The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.

I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles

And I straight up I disagree with this.

There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion can be built around facts.

This sounds real Nazi adjacent. Not far from Russia’s more conservative swing, either.

…I will acknowledge this is a issue. Since we’re apparently going to blow up immigration (which skews young), the US now has real “aging population” problem like South Korea and Japan are facing, and that are coming for China and Russia soon.

In other words, it’s not all made up.

I’m speaking as a guy, so my perspective isn’t the most relevant, but… to me, everything in that document sounds like a great way to turn off women that aren’t already steeped in this nuclear family culture anyway. Like, I have a couple in the family that’s literally the exact target of this campaign, and they won’t like that one bit.

This is an option.

The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need its performance most. It’d be a downgrade.

I could get a second 3090, I guess, and have some redundancy in case one fails. But I’m on an ITX board with 1 slot.

I’d be WAY more interested in a roughly equivalent 9000 series or Battlemage card, but alas, there is none.

Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.

But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.

Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.

But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a used 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.

Eh. Firefox is fine.

The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.

And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.

I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browsers to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.

Ungoogled Chromium does not support full uBlock Origin. Last I checked, it wont auto-update itself on Windows without a 3rd party tool, and I remember it having some other “quirks” from the stuff it strips out. The delay for security updates seems pretty minimal, too.

And personally, I like the bangs feature, now that I’m using Orion on iOS anyway.

But its based on ungoogled-chromium, so if you prefer to use upstream, that makes a lot of sense. Helium’s main pitch seems to be an “easier to install” ungoogled chromium anyway.

Orion syncs cross platform, DuckDuckGo does as well. And I believe you can sync with extensions.

So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.

Not regretting it.

…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, I don’t want to hoard, but If my old Ampere card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?

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I like Lemmy as a “zoo”

I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.

Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.

I mean, it wouldn’t be a shooting war. Probably?

What it would be is the greatest diplomatic incident of the century. The United Stakes would steadily become the next Best Korea, like Russia did.

And maaany more.

OK. Very hot take.

…Computers can produce awful things. That’s not new. They’re tools that can manufacture unspeakable stuff in private.

That’s fine.

It’s not going to change.

And if some asshole uses it that way to damage others, you throw them in jail forever. That’s worked well enough for all sorts of tech.

The problem is making the barrier to do it basically zero, automatically posting it to fucking Twitter, and just collectively shrugging because… what? Social media is fair discourse? That’s bullshit.

The problem is Twitter more than Grok. The problem is their stupid liability shield.

Strip Section 230, and Musk’s lawyers would fix this problem faster than you can blink.

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Imagine where Epic would be if they had just censored Tim Sweeney’s Twitter account.

It’s like he’s hell bent on driving people away from Epic. I’m not sure I could be more abrasive if I tried, without losing the plausible deniability of not trying to troll.