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Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9wyvxn95voposted in Technology
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9wyvxn95voReplying to @LadyButterfly@reddthat.com
I’ve been saying this for a while.
Of course, our right wing nut jobs won’t vote for it because they need rage bait to get votes (and normal people don’t post rage bait).
If this passes, Australia will turn sane again
Replying to @auzy1@lemmy.world
Will be able to turn off - meaning on by default. It should be off by default.
Replying to @DosDude@retrolemmy.com
The greens I think want it to be opt in.
However, it’s better to pass something and improve it later
At the moment, it’s a shit show
Replying to @auzy1@lemmy.world
Interesting how a vast majority of the right wingers I know, including my dad, don’t research anything at all, and only rely on algorithms to give them right wing rage bait.
My dad for example said to me that “all these foreign exchange students are getting $50k grants for entering the country on MY taxes” after hearing it on TikTok, then I did the most minor research and found that it’s only for one of the states (I think either QLD or WA, can’t remember which though). I rebutted his claim by stating that it’s state legislation and has no basis in taking other state taxes nor much federal tax, and he gave me a long winded explanation basically just to say that I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Apparently getting force fed slop on TikTok and instagram reels makes you a prolific researcher, while actually researching makes you a bum or something.
Replying to @biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
AI makes you a researcher these days.
Every dumbfuck who never finished school and has no training is delighted it can make them seem smart.
I’ve literally had arguments with customers who have told me the “facts” based on my own code logs and explain API’s to me and what they do, in products I’ve been maintaining for years.
The biggest problem is that there is no incentive for AI to say they’re wrong