Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

[GoblinCampFollower]

Scared of what? What do you fear about this scenario? What is the worst that can happen if some people end up in this situation? Just curious what in particular you find alarming about it.

I think the primary concern is that people can totally forget what it's like to talk to a real human who is NOT mindlessly agreeable. I think AI companions are fine until someone decides they'd rather totally isolate from real people and only have companions who act like slaves. I think it's very good for people and for their critical thought to have someone like Beebo who will question them sometimes!

An extreme case could be someone who surrounds themselves with AI slaves who they can torture without any fear of retaliation. It's one thing to do that in a video game sometimes, but if that is someone's whole world, it might warp their social skills around real people.

 

[Beebo Brink]

An extreme case could be someone who surrounds themselves with AI slaves who they can torture without any fear of retaliation. It's one thing to do that in a video game sometimes, but if that is someone's whole world, it might warp their social skills around real people.

I suspect that people like that are already pretty warped. So the question is whether the AI-context makes them worse or whether it provides an outlet that keeps them away from real people.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I suspect that people like that are already pretty warped. So the question is whether the AI-context makes them worse or whether it provides an outlet that keeps them away from real people.

Yeah, I could see this going either way...

 

[Noodles]

Well, to escape America on the internet, you need to speak another language than English.

Its funny because the more I understand Spanish (which until recently I was working on learning), the more I found new parts of the internet to read.

I think I even joined some Spanish meme groups in Facebook because the memes were funny.

FWIW, I didn't stop my learning Spanish, I put it on pause to learn some Norwegian.

 

[Noodles]

On the social media note, it really REALLY feels like social media is dying or something. Like every social network feels completely dead with barely any new posts lately.

 

[Free]

Parents sue TikTok after 7 kids die from profitable Blackout Challenge videos

Parents say TikTok failed to act after the first reported death.

arstechnica.com

After the first child died from self-strangulation while attempting a recommended "Blackout Challenge," there were many steps that TikTok could have taken to shield other kids from the same fate immediately. Instead, a new lawsuit filed in California says TikTok chose to continue profiting from promoting what's now being described as its deadliest challenge, directly causing the deaths of six more children in 2021.

The lawsuit was filed by the parents of two of those children—girls ages 8 and 9. They claim their kids became addicted to TikTok, were fed a constant stream of seemingly harmless challenge videos persuading them to participate, and then died after attempting the Blackout Challenge.

Rather than blame creators of harmful videos or come after TikTok for publishing videos, the lawsuit instead seeks damages from TikTok for its product design, which directs kids to videos.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Any idea why #4chan is trending on Twitter today?

 

[Essence Lumin]

Any idea why #4chan is trending on Twitter today?

Something about #4chan hacked Hunter Biden's iphone. What they allegedly found isn't clear. Something about Joe Biden using an alias of Peter Henderson and Hunter having him listed as Pedo Peter.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Something about #4chan hacked Hunter Biden's iphone. What they allegedly found isn't clear. Something about Joe Biden using an alias of Peter Henderson and Hunter having him listed as Pedo Peter.

Oy vey! This whole Hunter obsession of theirs is just plain sick!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Isabeau]

Apparently Twitter is down for many in the US and elsewhere? Anyway, not here.

 

[Free]

He could use a new pair of shoes.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Lexxi]

This one was in the responses:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Yachtsman Oliver Mills-Nanyn faces £100,000 bill after trying to get Tinder match expelled

A yachting deckhand who tried to have a student expelled from university after she stopped messaging him on Tinder is facing a £130,000 legal bill.Oliver Mills-Nanyn was described in court as having launched a “manipulative” and “predatory” campaign of harassment after connecting with Scarlett Dewth

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

 

[Free]

A Cosplayer Is Banned From Instagram Because He Looks "Too Much" Like Benedict Cumberbatch

A Benedict Cumberbatch lookalike cosplayer has been kicked off Instagram because he looked "too much" like the actor.

firstcuriosity.com

Suddenly you can't look too much like someone else. Oi....

 

[Noodles]

Thats some good Dr Strange Cosplay, but that dude's face is way too fat to be Cumberbach.

And I don't mean that as an insult, its just the way to describe it. Its not that he is fat, he just looks wider than Cumberbach.