Wait until it starts feeling like revelation deja vu.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have swerved from the truth, saying resurrection has already occurred. They are upsetting the faith of some.

• 2 Tim 2:17-18

Literally just after talking about how people are spouting confident misinformation on another thread I see this one.

Twitter: Twitter retains minimal EXIF data, primarily focusing on technical details, such as the camera model. GPS data is generally stripped.

• Source

Yes, this is a privacy thing, we strip the EXIF data. As long as you’re not also adding location to your Tweet (which is optional) then there’s no location data associated with the Tweet or the media.

• Source (9 years ago)

People replying to a Twitter thread with photos are automatically having the location data stripped.

God, I can’t wait for LLMs to automate calling out well intentioned total BS in every single comment on social media eventually. It’s increasing at a worrying pace.

Hahaha, yeah, that one was great.

Also the one where they paid parents to name their baby ‘Turok.’

I sometimes wonder what those little Turoks are up to today (at least a half dozen parents took them up on it IIRC).

The shock advertising campaigns around games really were something. They worked - got a ton of free media coverage. But this was also at the time that video games were the Boogeyman like rock n’ roll had been to a generation before. The media loved nothing more than a “look how terrible video games are” story and PR firms were playing into that environment.

So campaigns like this were basically the equivalent of Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat.

As games became more normalized, the campaigns shifted accordingly and - like Ozzy - tamed quite a bit out.

Yeah. Even just around a decade ago I’d explain the demographics shift to more women gamers to clients and they’d not believe it.

Stereotypes stick around for a long time, even when (or maybe especially when) untrue.

It’s a shame that “girl gamers” were considered such a rarity when it really seemed like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Oh, a game with only male protagonists with activities only primarily associated with boys doesn’t have many girls playing it? I guess girls aren’t that into games and we should double down on the focus on dudes.”

As a result, the market effectively abandoned around half of two generations of a potential continued audience and had a significantly reduced pool of interested labor to make games.

It’s a bit frustrating given my love for games that they could likely have advanced even further had it not been an exclusionary industry for as long as it was (though that can be said about pretty much every business vertical in existence too given our generalized collective history of exclusion).

The best summarization of the state of Google’s Assistant related support and dedication can be seen in this thread.

We sell device you use.

We know we added a problem that even replacing the device won’t fix.

We’re aware of the issue and are working on a fix.

We just downsized the department.

Crickets

All while users generally suffer.

WhatsApp had 500 million MAU when it was bought up.

That’s 250x the fediverse.

They really don’t care.

Yeah, it’s been hilarious watching the fediverse think Meta gives a rat’s ass about either reaching them with content or getting access to their horde of memes.

This is about preempting regulation.

Meta would love nothing less than having their interoperability push still end up as a walled garden, and if I didn’t know better regarding their total disinterest about Lemmy or even Mastodon existing, would even suspect that the degree to which they’d be meddling in the conversion would be creating posts about how people should be irrationally upset and defederate from Threads.

Though they don’t care enough to be involved in the conversation at all, and know full well that the fediverse will hit scaling issues should it ever miraculously gain traction long before it is actually a threat in any way to their market dominance.

All that said, it’s still pretty hilarious to watch the inflated self-importance and slight paranoia that goes with it leading to bitter debates like this though.

I find it odd when people get upset at the idea of having access to their own aggregated data but almost never get upset when they hand over massive amounts of data to companies that can privately do the same things on their data.

Google already processes your Photos data, and while you get their facial recognition data pipeline fed back to you, there’s a fair bit of other analysis going on that you aren’t always seeing. But people aren’t generally complaining that they are scanning your photos for criminal activity or trying to maximize product engagement using the data.

But if suddenly they turn back over access to that deep analysis so you can ask a chatbot “what did I eat for my birthday two years ago and who was there” and get a description of the meal, who else was there, and relevant images without needing to scroll back your timeline - now it’s suddenly creepy and we don’t want it (even though literally all that information is already being processed at roughly the same level of fidelity already).

People are weird.

This is BS. It’s a 3rd rate marketing group trying to game SEO for lead gen.

Go ahead and contact them, claiming to be a prospective client with a few hundred (insert niche retail or service here) stores and that you’re interested in their product.

At best they’ll end up revealing they have a SDK or some crap to do the active listening in your own app if you have one.

If this were real, more than this company would be doing it, and you’d see actual case studies around it.

Also, it’s 1000% not legal in half the US states given two party consent wiretapping laws unless the users are agreeing to it in some way, which again brings us back to that at best this is some shoddy SDK (and unlikely even that).

Edit: Looking at it closer and given the way it isn’t linked at all from elsewhere and is a one off mention of the services, I’m actually wondering if this was an April Fool’s page that they just never took down. It’s pretty funny if that, especially given the ridiculousness of a lot of the buzz word heavy language in the bullet points. Like the idea that they are actively listening to the voice data and then having AI analyze the purchase history of the users to then cross attribute ROI using your “tracking pixel” is hilarious.

Even just one of those steps is such a pie in the sky claim even for most billion dollar agencies.

That’s wild that prop 10 passed. At least by a much smaller margin than the others, but still “let’s exempt pharma companies from taxation on assets” is pretty gross as an amendment.

More jogging in place than going in any direction.

Tell you what. Come up with a unique joke that isn’t on Google, and let’s see what GPT-4 says as to why it might be funny.

You seem not to really grok the whole “just because I haven’t seen it it must not exist” thing, and I suppose the easiest way to address it is to just put you directly in front of it in action.

Let me know when they invent one of those, because they sure as fuck haven’t done it yet.

This was literally part of the 2022 PaLM paper and allegedly the thing that had Hinton quit to go ringing alarm bells and by this year we now have multimodal GPT-4 writing out explanations for visual jokes.

Just because an ostrich sticks its head in the sand doesn’t mean the world outside the hole doesn’t exist.

And in case you don’t know what I mean by that, here’s GPT-4 via Bing’s explanation for the phrase immediately above:

This statement is a metaphor that means ignoring a problem or a reality does not make it go away. It is based on the common myth that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when they are scared or threatened, as if they can’t see the danger. However, this is not true. Ostriches only stick their heads in the ground to dig holes for their nests or to check on their eggs. They can also run very fast or kick hard to defend themselves from predators. Therefore, the statement implies that one should face the challenges or difficulties in life, rather than avoiding them or pretending they don’t exist.

Go ahead and ask Eliza what the sentence means and compare.

There was no AOL chat bot that could explain why a joke it had never seen before was funny or could solve an original variation of a logic puzzle.

The fact that you can’t tell the difference reflects more on where you fall within the Dunning-Kreuger curve of NLP model assessment than it does the capabilities of the LLMs.

Mhmm. Literally things that computer scientists a decade ago considered impossible within our lifetimes occurs, but social media is convinced it’s a ‘gimmick.’

Laypeople have really drunk up the anti-AI Kool aid these days…

You talk as if those are separate things.

Advances in broad reaching technology ends up broad reaching.

What if that already happened eons ago and you’re currently stuck in a digital twin of Earth circa 2023 reconstructed as best some future AI was able to from the memes the original jsdz left behind?

It’s generally easy to crap on what’s ‘bad’ about big players, while underestimating or undervaluing what they are doing right for product market fit.

A company like Meta puts hundreds of people in foreign nations through PTSD causing hell in order to moderate and keep clean their own networks.

While I hope that’s not the solution that a community driven effort ends up with, it shows the breadth of the problems that can crop up with the product as it grows.

I think the community will overcome these issues and grow beyond it, but jerks trying to ruin things for everyone will always exist, and will always need to be protected against.

To say nothing for the far worse sorts behind the production and more typical distribution of such material, whom Lemmy will also likely eventually need to deal with more and more as the platform grows.

It’s going to take time, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the only way a federated social network eventually can exist is within onion routing or something, as at a certain point the difference in resources to protect against content litigation between a Meta and someone hosting a Lemmy server is impossible to equalize, and the privacy of hosts may need to be front and center.