FlashMobOfOne

As I understand it, any and all “audits” and “guardrails” are all entirely internal to Flock and law enforcement themselves, and therefore, absolutely useless.

Like social media itself, it’s going to be up to the judiciary and civil lawsuits to fix this shit. (Though the widespread vigilantism is heartening.) I don’t think there will be any meaningful regulation until some cop somewhere deletes his entire family after using Flock to stalk and hunt them down. (And let’s be honest, here in the US even that might not be enough.)

Oh yeah. I work in legal tech, and out firm made our internal training on using these models scary as heck to give the associates and shareholders a proper perspective.

That said, we’re only using models that were trained on legal data, so there’s no shitposts from Reddit or FB or whatever to gum up the works, but we still require human validation and drastic consequences if people fail to do so and it’s found out.

I’m so glad I never procreated.

With any luck I’ll croak before the worst effects of these decisions manifest.

I made a video on this topic several months ago.

TLDW: Metrolist and Outertune

(But would appreciate a like to help with the algo if you try these out and like them. Thanks!)

The artists weren’t getting paid when you were using Spotify. The shareholders were.

If you want artists to get paid, you have to buy direct or support them indirectly via merch/tickets/buying streams, etc.

There used to be code in Grok that disallowed people from saying anything mean about Elon. Interesting.

But he is in the Epstein Files and we know he visited the island, so it’s not unlikely.

Other browsers have native ad-block and you don’t need add-ons.

It’s a very cool story and Bill Swearingen and I live in the same town, so if anyone’s interested, I opted to make my weekly YT video on this story: https: The NoRecognition Project - Fooling Flock with Adversarial Design.

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We still do.

Easy to say if you’re not a creator.

I write, edit, record, and publish everything I create, all by myself.

Devaluing smaller creators is going to mean more AI slop, because more people will be motivated to take shortcuts.

And those who don’t will probably quit. Creating authentic content and growing a channel takes time, and a lot more of it now.

Udm14.com still works if you absolutely have to use Google search. Otherwise try Mojeek.

It was kind of inevitable.

Everyone I know who’s tried it tells me that big corporate brands and their slop / astroturfed content is why Bluesky is less enjoyable. Haven’t myself, as I’m perfectly content on Mastodon and Lemmy, so I understand that’s anecdotal.

Not really a tech story.

But what a cunt. I fucking hate billionaires.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Doesn’t matter what they call them.

People are just going to keep going.

Fuck yeah.

And it’s only going to get worse as more people learn about it. I made a video a few weeks ago about a man in Virgina who (allegedly) cut down 13 of them.

That sucks.

I’ve been deliberately leaving mistakes in my videos here and there to protect against any of this automod junk.

These motherfuckers should be sitting in jail cells right now.