Stop funding their analytics department so that it’s easier to “accidentally” mislead the ad services department into telling advertisers that people are totally still seeing ads and getting paid that way anyways. That’ll prolong it for a bit

Wow happy to know my comments have been reaching people 🙂‍↕️

Let me first clarify that I think you seem very nice and I’m not mad at you, nor do I have any intent to make you feel bad. I think you’re misreading my tone, tbh. That or I’m expressing my tone poorly.

So, I thought I did correct you politely, within the bounds of also needing to make very clear and unambiguous that you needed to adjust your confidence when talking about this subject. I have no issue with someone idly brainstorming ideas, but in the context of your original comment “There are so many ways to do human verification that have worked for years.”, which you didn’t qualify in any way, you sounded completely authoritative and sure of yourself. Since you yourself even know that you are ignorant on this topic, to me a better phrasing would be to preface that with something like “I think…” Or “It seems like…”, or even outright saying “I don’t really know about this stuff, but…” Etc.

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be a dick, just being honest. I felt it was important to correct your unjustified confidence in the original comment where you claimed many such solutions exist

Sorry dude, but this comment makes it clear you have no idea what you’re talking about. If I’m given an assignment to write a program that generates a huge variety of novel cat drawings, which won’t register the same in this database, I bet I could personally single handedly have that done in a week of work.

Some other problems :

1. Many real humans will draw roughly similar cats. Unless you compare the drawings pixel by pixel, or very precisely, then there will be lots of false positives.

2. If you then decide to compare the drawings pixel by pixel or very precisely, then I can trivially generate new drawings by altering them. I have plenty of time to reverse engineer how your database is comparing things even though you don’t tell me when I get a strike because I can make lots of fake accounts via hiding my IP address and run experiments by feeding different variations of drawings and seeing which ones eventually get banned.

3. If you ask once every couple of months, then my bot gets to do three times whatever that duration of months is worth of damage and misinformation before it gets banned. That’s a pretty long time, especially for a bot. I can deploy new bots much faster than your system gets rid of them.

4. As Anivia pointed out, I can pay real humans to draw the different cats for my bots when needed. This is especially trivial because I can just ask them to draw a whole bunch of cats in advance. I don’t even need to wait for the cue from the system. I can just have a big library of pre-drawn cat drawings that I upload as needed.

The jury didn’t say using Signal was evidence of terrorist activity, though. That’s why it’s alarmist to say the jury said that - because they didn’t. At least, not to my knowledge?

It’s alarmist to say that a jury decided using Signal is evidence of terrorism

“influence customers to increase their adoption of digital self-solve”

Corporate speakers should be paddled

Cant wait til they start taking volunteers for the Mars rocket

I wonder why they’re being given paper and drawing instruments in the first place?

I know you can buy used and refurbished actually, that’s how I got my pixel. It’s still buying a Google phone. It still breaks free from Google. You have now reached the point of just regular old illiteracy I guess

This betrays a deep level of tech illiteracy

Idk a lot of people are very attached to their AI boyfriends and girlfriends so I think there’s definitely a large market for this

Oh yeah my b I meant women and brown people who have so far been helping the administration 👍 MAGA shuttle discarding the booster rocket

We’re entering the “get rid of women and brown people” phase!

They think that the AI is smart enough to deduce from the pixels around it what the original face must have looked like, even though there’s actually no reason why there should be a strict causal relationship between those things.

Omg I love this thread and this post. Sometimes I feel like everyone is crazy when they suggest alternative software.

People will be like “hey the best burger place in town closed can anyone recommend an alternative?”

And then a bunch of farmers show up like “yeah dude buy this calf and then just raise it real quick and also plant some trees to get wood for your smoker, you have a smoker right? Anyways yeah it’s so easy bro I don’t even know why anyone buys corporate burgers tbh.”

And you say “hmmm okay sounds like a lot of work but I guess I can try it?”

And you try it and it’s the shittiest blandest burger and it doesn’t even have any sauce or lettuce or tomatoes because fuck you those things are for corporate burgers and if you want to complain why don’t you open up a tomato branch and start contributing tomatoes then and waaah waaah why won’t the stupid normies eat my shitty burger that takes 6 months to make and doesn’t have ketchup waaaaah it must be because everyone is dumb and lazy

They’re basically all equally good, but some are less confirmed to give your data to the government (probably they all do that too, which is why they were recommending you not use any of them.)

No video call or screen share either from what I can tell, which is uhhh pretty major to day the least. That said, it’s not like I need only use one platform at a time. I’ll probably get on that and start using it and hope that they add those things in the future. But yeah, I’m not sure if I would call it close to Discord right now.

“We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or the Iranians’ doorstep or in Washington, they’d kill 500 or 50 million or however [many], but the rest of us would survive with a new [world].”

Damn lol, I’ve gotta hand it to him, this is the least word-mincing I’ve ever seen from a celebrity on a topic like this. Them’s fighting words