Makes me angry my country is now split as far as AI slop awareness is concerned: some are opposed (look up so-called Pax Silica), while others are embracing the garbage full on as if it's gonna make them more money, and still others unaware it could affect them sooner or later, especially as the government thinks AI is a boon when it's really not.
You can just curate your experience by making changes to the feed and shutting off what you feel are sources of distressing content.
Given the current state of affairs where if being a progressive American is a harrowing struggle, it's not surprising the fediverse is a refuge and outlet for angry progressives and people who have been alienated by spez's war on left-leaning content, as he will ban anyone even remotely or casually talking of committing violence on awful fascists and robber barons.
My wife is Chinese, she watches AI Chinese dramas and she has told me that most of China watch AI dramas. And Gen Z watch AI, Everyone younger than 30 relies on AI.
If it's not that, I'm seeing people almost everywhere hunched on their phones, watching AI-generated summaries of... what? soap opera episodes and whole movies. And those people complaining about the low quality of education when they're so fucking focused much on getting a piece of paper just to be hired even for a department store attendant.
It is no more different with the gold rushes to California, Oregon, and Alaska, where the real winners are the merchants selling pickaxes and work overalls.
And some people in my country -- constantly plagued by institutionalized corruption but so soaked in escapist entertainment -- think American/Japanese/South Korean politicians are incorruptible, no thanks to the movies and Youtube videos they consume.
Yeah, with AI bots now doing sitewide moderation, if you said anything even remotely about killing or wishing a death wish to a prominent fucking Nazi, they permaban you and the browser you use (so killing your alt accounts, too).
Makes me angry my country is now split as far as AI slop awareness is concerned: some are opposed (look up so-called Pax Silica), while others are embracing the garbage full on as if it's gonna make them more money, and still others unaware it could affect them sooner or later, especially as the government thinks AI is a boon when it's really not.