• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    Adam ruined reddit.

    (Go with me on the joke, reddit was ruined long long time ago. Adam did an endorsement of Orb a few weeks back, got called out and did an apology.)

    I’M STILL BLAMING CONOVER THO

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    3 hours ago

    So this guy helps create a technology that turns bots up to 11 and then he turns around to sell us a privacy invasive solution to the problem he created? What a fucking asshole.

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      I will happily forego any/all social media (and never look back) rather than submit to such an idiotic, intrusive, perverse, and disgusting system.

      🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 💩

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    And you need to donate a kidney.

    Hey, it’s reddit, it’ll be worth it to see all those ai bots talk to eachother, Right?

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    So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

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    On the one hand, I understand the inherent limitations of pseudonymous social media and why a corporation and even end users might benefit from authoritative user identification.

    On the other hand, oh hell no.

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        Your bank doesn’t even need to know who you are.

        On a related note, Bank of America, if you’re reading this, my name is floop @lemmy.dbzer0.com, and I would like to withdraw all the money from my account. Nonsequential bills please!

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      I mean, there’s someone here who has (not even exaggerating) 15+ accounts that they just rotate thru.

      It’s a hassle to block them all because I still see new ones, but I’ll take that over “proving myself” as a unique person with something like this.

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      I don’t think psudonyms are an issue, but verifying that a user is an actual person vs an AI chatbot is absolutely something that every popular social media platform will need to tackle at some point.

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        Hmm funny how Sam Altman is one of the few people responsible for creating that problem and now he’s selling the solution to it

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          It’s actually low-key brilliant. Start a gold rush, when you realize the gold isn’t actually there, pivot to selling shovels and keep hyping the gold rush. Fools and their money are soon parted, and there seem to be an endless supply of them.

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          The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.

          He’s a convenient bogey-man, and a huge asshole, but he’s the not the source of this problem.

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        Will they though? Facebook has already created undisclosed bot accounts themselves before. A Platform where real users and such bots are indistinguishable (for the user) sounds like a social media corpos and authoritarian governments wet dream to me. Also reminds me of the attempts to disguise ads as natural content.

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          Sure but they only want the bots they approve of. That way they can charge for the privilege of allowing someone’s preferred bots onto the platform.

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    I mean, come on. We shit on redditors, but even redditors won’t stand for getting their iris’s scanned just to use the site…

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    Tools for Humanity… was founded six years ago with the lofty goal of providing a universal basic income to the world by offering them cryptocurrency called Worldcoin in exchange for scanning their eyeballs with an Orb.

    What the fuck