Misinformation is misinformation, whether it is intentional or not. And it’s not farfetched that soon someone will launch a propaganda bot with biased training data that intentionally spreads fake news.

AI bots don’t ‘hallucinate’ they just make shit up as they go along mixed with some stuff that they found in google, and tell it in a confident manner so that it looks like they know what they are talking about.

Techbro CEO’s are just creeps. They don’t believe their own bullshit, and know full well that their crap is not for the benefit of humanity, because otherwise they wouldn’t all be doomsday preppers. It all a perverse result of American worship of self-made billionaires.

See also The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Maybe also !Selfhosted@lemmy.world. There are selfhosted communities on other servers too.

It baffles me that so many don’t see it for what it is.

Meta contacts their competitor, and says that they want to build a competing product, and want us as competitor to help them with that. How can you possibly fall for that. Meta can already use activitypub for whatever they are building without any need to contact anyone from the Fediverse. The only possible reason they contact instance admins is because Meta wants to dictate the terms on how to Fediverse operates.

If we are not federated with them, we are not obliged to follow their changes to the specification.

Billionaires are prepping Doomsday bunkers

Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman, 33, is one of many wealthy names who have begun to invest in private bunkers.

“I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time,” Huffman continued.

This conversation will be off the record, as the team may discuss confidential details that should not be discussed with others

Translation: Nobody needs to know how much money we offer you as a bribe.

The dead internet theory (wikipedia)

The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.

Turtles A.I. all the way down.

Blink is a fork of Webkit. And Webkit was the original rendering engine of Chrome, before Google replaced it with Blink. So the DuckDuckGo browser belongs to the chromium family.

EDIT: And Safari is a distant cousin of Chromium.

The arguments in the article about open protocols misses the point though. This is not a technical issue. It’s also not a capitalist vs anti-capitalist issue, but a policy issue of who you want to associate with.

Not convinced by the e-mail analogy rebuttal. There are plenty of small e-mail providers thriving alongside the giants.

Indeed. It’s a bit of fake news that the e-mail market is dominated by a handfull of big players. It’s enterely possible to self-host a small e-mail server and have to e-mail accepted without problems. Of course, don’t run and open relay, and make sure your reverse dns and DMARC and DKIM records are correct.

„Embrace, extend, and extinguish“

In the case of Facebook, it’s “copy, acquire and kill”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/facebook-accused-of-copy-acquire-and-kill-tactics-in-us-antitrust-hearing/

It’s a bad move to strengthen to chrome hegemony.

Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM “prompts?”

The A.I. “Grift Shift” is Underway

It could be argued that web forums were an answer to older system that came before it and the problems with them. Systems like Usenet and Fidonet BBS’s were federated system, and web forums are actually newer than that.

This reminds me of this: http://textfiles.com/