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Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won’t miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.
We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.
I concur, though my job has me integrating some open ai into our software. Not much I can do besides so what they like, bit of transcription and summary.
Had a coworker give me replies from gpt for an issue . I could tell easily because I had worked with similar data for years (parsing PBX data for calls) and knew the reply had errors. Like I know I can have issues parsing our data sometimes but it was insulting he gave an AI reply. So I nicely pointed out all the errors in the reply saying I assumed it was from ai. Mean did it nicely he was trying to help (and is a really nice dude) but still I know how to google and sift as well as ai probably does. And if I get the answer I remember it due due to the work I did.
It’s too stressful to worry about divesting from everything all the time. We do our best here in the swamp
I have no great love for the current administration and nor do I agree with most of its policies.
But I’m definitely going to have to see a source on the claims mentioned in this post.
Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.
Thank fuck I literally use none of those services.
Right? It’s getting hard to talk to people nowadays because everyone seems brainwashed.
But you can’t get them out of it. Asking people to not check those feeds every day is like asking them to go without water.
It’s embarrassing how dependant folks have become with technology and social media. I’m not immune myself, but I’ll drop anything that goes against my values.
I keep trying to relate this to when we started mass-producing books. It must have been the same. We integrated that tech and got better.
I am not personally a fan right now.
I wish WhatsApp wasn’t the main form of communication in my area of the world.
That’s the only one I’m on and it’s because I could not convince anyone around me to just use texts or download signal
Yes you should break yourself from all of the US and Israeli tech stack. They cannot be trusted.
It’s hard to get away from the hardware companies through. I’m all AMD because they’re a little less evil, but they’re in the same AI bubble and also currently doing little in terms of innovation since they already have the performance advantage
You should break yourself from any tech stack that isn’t open source and either decentralized or federated if it’s an online service, regardless of country of origin.
I don’t read news in WhatsApp, tho
Neither do I, I only use it for sending and recieving messages. I don’t think anyone uses the AI bullshit that was added to it.
No actually we all seem to loath that. Like anyone who has to use WhatsApp (like me) finds it annoying. You can tag it in a duscussion, for example, but other than that the productivity use is limited
It was so much better when the search bar was just for contacts or chat messages instead of all the genuinely useless terms
They’re trying to compete with telegram and X on some level, but it was always just meant to be a messaging app. Telegram works fine but it’s full of questionable users and channels.
The dumb thing is that Meta owns Instagram and WhatsApp, so if every one of their apps have these features what’s the point of downloading more than one of them?
EDIT: I misread telegram as Instagram lmao, but either way there’s no point in using any of them
But everyone else does and they will be voting in the next election dragging you down with them.
I can’t control other people, only myself. If they want to sleepwalk into lies and fake propaganda there is nothing I can do.
Your point?
The control of media and of communication by the wealthy is mainly a threat to society.
It’s not like eating junk food where you’re only harming yourself.
We’re all threatened by people being ignorant and propagandized.
Now, what you can do, there are many things. Talk to your neighbors, involve yourself in your community, get people to come on the Fediverse, demonstrate, etc.
I do all of that already. If my friends and family take my advice it is their choice. I cannot nor would I want to force them into it. You can’t save people from themselves, especially if they’re unwilling. You can only save yourself.
I commend you for doing your part.
ur still affected by how these influence the news cycle and general societal conversation
Ok, and? Why is everyone up my ass because I’m happy I don’t support these elites? Sure the rest of the sheep are grazing in the pasture. How is that my problem? It’s not like I don’t talk to those in my circle. I can lead a sheep to water but I can’t make them drink.
Lol. Lmao even. You think shaping your habits will protect you. You can’t personal responsibility your way out of this.
If you can’t solve the problem 100%, why even bother.
Just vote for trump. It’s all the same.
It has little to do with protection and more to do with keeping a clean conscience. I won’t support evil.
The issue here isn’t your about your conscious. The majority of people do use these and those people are being influenced.
Your comment has a sort of fuck you I got mine vibe to it.
No it’s not, lol. If people stop using these platforms they will fail. Sounds to me like you’re just justifying your continued support of these services and platforms. Defeatist loser mentality.
You just assumed I use those platforms which makes you the fool here.
You not supporting evil doesn’t stop evil. To try for another approach here since you seem rather dense, evil prevails when good men do nothing.
I’m sure you’ll just attack that too becuase what’s important here to you is your feelings. Doing something was never going to be an option for you
And what are you doing Mr. Holier-than-thou?
Thank you for asking so nicely and with such curtesy and humility after graciously answer my questions.
I actively encourage and warn others to not use these platforms. I also pirate all their shit and share it with those around me who struggle to shake their addiction to the content.
I mean, congrats? Kind of irrelevant to the discussion here, then.
“Oligarchy becomes smaller and more powerful” - article
“Good thing they don’t get my money via direct means” - you
Lol, short of going out and killing these bastards there isn’t much else I can do other than to stop supporting these services. I have to hope if enough folks like me stop using these services they will fail. There is a point where it only takes one straw to break the camels back.
The only one mentioned here that i have is WhatsApp, but i barely use it
Although i do still use some other nonfree Amerikkkan services. Discord is the main one, i’m quite active on there and it’s not that easy to replace because of its structure with communities (also there aren’t good alternatives yet, quite hopeful for Fluxer tho). I also use an iPhone and Apple Messages, and i have a Macbook (which I don’t use much at the moment) but I’m gonna install Linux on it. I don’t make use of iCloud tho, i use Proton Drive and selfhosted email.
I’m not trying to rib you here, but I hate that excuse that it’s too hard to drop these products. We’ve lived thousands of years without them, but lack the will now? WTF kinda weak ass shit is that?
I am not saying that it’s hard to drop
I’m saying that because of Discord’s structure it’s hard to move Discord communities to other platforms because you need to move a community of many people rather than just an account on which you post and view posts like when moving from Twitter to Mastodon or Reddit to Lemmy
It’s not hard at all. You either move or you don’t. It’s binary. If you can’t be bothered to do a little bit of legwork then just stay where you are and give the corps what they want. If that fragments your community so be it, build another one. All I hear are excuses as to why folks can’t stand by their morals because it’s inconvenient. IMO it’s pathetic, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
We are on the losing end of the class war. And it feels like we aren’t even trying to fight back.
Luigi fought back
A poll came out the other day that put Mamdani +49 (that’s not a typo +49) in New York. People are waking up, all the propaganda in the world cannot change people’s mind when they see someone fighting for their material interests.
I’ve been in this fight since Bernie in 2016 there are people who’ve been in it much much longer than me.
We are winning…
This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he’s gone.
Those corporations are “donating” (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it’s not charity.
Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose… that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.
See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.
“Lobbying”
People are talking about it, but the conversations are muffled or muted by those same billionaires.
Large no kings rallies should have had massive coverage, but were actively ignored by the news who frequently report on a handful of protestors who are promoting hate. Heck, with all of the pro Trump bullshit being a tidal wave of shit it just drowns out everything else so trying to actively discuss problems anywhere but niche communities is like trying to have a conversation in the middle of the dance floor at a rave.
Lol, posted on “X”
Exactly where people who need to read this message are. What’s your point?
Moral superiority. It’s seems to be a strong theme around here. Why worry about others when we’re all so much better then them.
assigning moral value to software is such a weird thing when you really think about it
“haha look i’m a morally superior person due to the specific 1s and 0s that run on my CPU” ok
It’s also funny and weird how the epstein files are also just 1s and 0s
gotta reach people
posting it on an alternative would be preaching to the choir
They said…on twitter/X … with a blue check…
And how dare they criticize capitalism while living in a capitalist country!
And how dare they push for better labor laws while using electronics made by child labor!
Stop with the silliness.
But twitter is a nazi platform and there are valid alternatives available.
Alao participation in capitalism might be necessary to survive, posting on Twitter isnt.
Just gonna ignore that blue mark huh. Or do you not know what that means
It means they reach a bigger audience.
You criticize society, yet you live in one.
Paying for the checkmark is out of line though.
gotta reach people
Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).
The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
First time I’ve seen the term “financial obesity” and I love it. Thanks.
There was basically one positive aspect of them going for this sort of model: they are very incompetent at actually controlling such a media conglomerate monster, specially as it grows. Now there’s AI, there’s social network personality cults-on-demand, they can increasingly and reliably offload the control to what are essentially primordially mental surgery bisected intelligence that can be cloned on demand. They are increasingly working to create the digital human cattle slaughterhouses they’ve always wanted.
Plus Amazon
