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  • UK: Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces

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  • I think it's insane because social media is addictive because being social and communicating with fellow human beings is addictive. That's what you and me are doing here and why we find it so pleasurable. That is not a bad thing.

    It's a bizarre lesson to drill into our children's brains that this is a negative thing. I assume they don't really know what social media is and see it as distinct, more like the one way communication of comic books, rock n roll, and other media moral panics, and they assume children will too. But what will happen to the next generation is that they will see all forms of human interaction as horribly addictive, amoral, and unhealthy.

  • UK Introduces Full Social Media Ban For Under 16s - Including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.

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  • That's the thing. I'm not only perfectly fine with getting anyone under the age of 16 off the Internet, I'd also like to see everyone under the age of 21 off the Internet. But it has to be done in a way that utilizes the strength of modern technology and protects our privacy. It's extremely doable to achieve this, and governments know this, but getting kids off the Internet is not what the government is trying to do.

  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts

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  • There's an old movie on YT called Shield for Murder with a character named Packy and the subtitles censor the name.

  • Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women

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  • This seems like it violates the first amendment. This means that it's illegal now to create a satirical image of Trump getting raped by Vance. Or vice versa.

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    Come to think of it, that South Park episode with a naked AI trump is illegal.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • Is there data that the vast majority of people in the world are not communist Linux-using weebs on the autistic spectrum suffering from anxiety problems who find jokes about operating systems, Lovecraftian horrors, and quantum mechanics hilarious, and relate to memes about standing in the corner at a party and not talking to anybody?

    We are not the majority, my friend. This is one of those things where you really need to take “trust me bro" as the best double blind study you’re gonna get. Your question is the best data I can give.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • This proves my point. Normal people don't think like this. It's weird. A bar without smoking is like a church Jesus. This is one of those topics online where you feel like you're being deliberately gas lit. But I have to remember I'm surrounded by the weirdest of the weird.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • They are not in the minority. The Internet is not the majority. You and I do not remotely represent the vast majority of people in any way shape or form. No one here does.

  • Stop telling me AI is the future [Still Vreni]

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  • Most people want to bring smoking indoors back. The only people who don't are the weird shut-ins who sit around posting online all day. People out in the real world don't view having an after meal cigarette as equivalent to fucking slavery.

    You guys have to remember that if you ask a random person on the street what Cthulhu is, they're not going to have a fucking clue. Everyone in this thread is a weirdo. Including me.

  • Time to relax!

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  • I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.

  • Don't be late

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  • It depends on the doctor today. I have a few that make you wait forever and then are in and out in 30 seconds when they see me.

  • The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.

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  • I'm sorry if you lost your job, but if you actually helped improve talking to these damn things then I thank you for your service.

  • Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs

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  • If you're talking about the automated phone thing, they've been trying to do that since the 90s. In the past the secret "get me a human" trick was to keep mashing zero till you got a human. Today, you can just keep saying "human" or "I need to speak to a human".

  • Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs

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  • You're assuming AI will successfully replace enough jobs to have a social impact. You're buying into the hype. I can't think of a single job it can replace.

  • The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.

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  • I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It's been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.

    https://youtu.be/kTefnhbg0Ig

  • The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing.

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  • What job were you doing that AI can do it?

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    Gen Z's AI backlash is getting louder

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  • AI is just a suped up MENACE matchbox computer, a superpowerful autocomplete. If that's your job title, you're boned.

  • Why new grads are booing commencement speakers: There's an 'ambient anxiety that AI is going to make things dramatically worse'

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  • AI is fascism? This Butlerian Jihad is going to result in the A* algorithm and single-player games being outlawed.

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  • How do we enforce such an idea? I don't know, maybe, we can create some kind of "parental control" software, and if parents don't use it, then we can pass something called "child neglect" laws and punish them with that?

  • Movies

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  • Today we see it that way but in the 70s and 80s, the 1950s Thing was hailed as a classic prestige science fiction film. That's why Carpenter's version was trashed at the time. It was dismissed as a grotesque barf bag SFX spectacle that completely disregarded what made the original so good.

  • The totally hypothetical button thought experiment

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  • It isn't the "cigarette baron's" fault any more than the beer baron's fault or the parachute maker's fault. Some people are going to die if they choose to indulge in mildly risky behavior. If the scenario is something like this, everyone here will be pushing that button. Don't say you won't because you will.