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  • The goal isn’t preventing kids from seeing anything, it’s about getting them used to websites/apps asking for facial ID.

    It only needs to happen a couple times to tie your browsing history across the whole Internet to you.

    The AI can’t guess ages, it can’t tie a minor to a driver’s licenses…

    But when those kids turn 16 and get their pictures uploaded with name, DLN, and likely SSN it can all be backfilled and that prior browsing history tied to the identity.

    Tldr:

    Everyone know it won’t do what they say, that’s fine with the people doing it because they’re not doing it for the reason they say they are.





  • We put this real question to AI Mode, “Why does Google Search suck now?” And you won’t believe the answer! (Actually, you won’t be surprised.)

    The Chocolate Factory’s AI search substitute offered this completely trustworthy reply:

    "You are definitely not imagining it. Users, tech critics, and researchers have documented a measurable decline in Google Search quality. The core issue is that the search engine no longer feels like a tool designed to find the best corner of the web; instead, it feels like a vehicle designed to keep you on Google-owned properties or clicking on monetized links.

    “The degradation of Google Search stems from a mix of aggressive monetization, an ongoing arms race with web spammers, and the disruptive introduction of AI features.”

    AI is gonna be the same path. Once people trust it, it’ll stop mattering if it give the best info, what matters is if people buy products and believe advertisements/propaganda.

    There just will never be as much money in providing nonbiased and accurate answers as there is in manipulating people. So as long as capitalism runs everything, the end goal will always be manipulating people for someone’s profit.

    It’s not an accident, it’s not “enshitification”, it’s the natural and inevitable result of unregulated capitalism. The only way to avoid it, is to heavily regulate capitalism. Acting like it’s a separate problem that can be avoided without regulating capitalism just makes people think we can make unregulated capitalism work, if we could it would be working already.











  • Steve Bannon

    Literally the one that excelled at the online pivot.

    He’s basically the old white guy from American History X, except because our timeline is extra crazy, he got involved with Chinese WoW gold farms and realized online games was even easier to recruit than webpages.

    Like, he’s absolutely a piece of shit, but decades ago before the alcohol turned his brain completely to mush, he put in the first steps to getting us here. Not just politically but socially/culturally.

    He was extremely effective, but he wouldn’t have been if he was forced to do all that shit in person where he could be punched in the face.

    Steve Bannon hanging out with 10 year olds on a playground sets off alarm bells, but do it from behind a WoW avatar and it doesn’t stand out.

    Again tho, it’s not the online games, its not the in person DnD, not the punk shows, not skateparks, not social media…

    Those are all just places, and if Nazis are tolerate in any places, they set up shop and start recruiting. The only way to get rid of it and to keep it gone, is constantly being aware in every space that some day a Nazi might show up, and if they do the most important thing is that they leave. If everyone does that, it works. But everyone has to do it, they can’t have a safe space because they’ll only use it to make everywhere else less safe.


  • It’s not social media itself, it’s social media companies tolerating the intolerant.

    Back in the day nazis recruited at punk shows, so when they showed up you punched them in the face and they left. Fucking easiest 2 minute conflict resolution ever and it kept them check for decades while letting teenage punks have a valid target for their rage.

    Then daytime TV (Springer, Ricky lake, that shit) started bringing them on, and letting them get their message out, and they capitalized on that with early webpages and forums. Creating the same recruitment pipeline they use today, because people can’t physically punch them in the face online.

    The mods/admins have to do that with bans.

    When they don’t, it’s for the same reason as Springer. They want the conflict because conflict attracts eyeballs. But all it does is help nazis recruit.

    There can’t be any tolerance of the intolerant.