In the last month it has become a barrage. The algorithms also seem to be in overdrive. If I like something I get bombarded with more stuff like that within a day. I'd say 90% of my feed is shit that has nothing to do with anyone I know.

The other 60% are old people re-sharing it.

and, is the jury already in on which ai is most fuckable?

Deleted my account a little while ago but for my feed I think it was higher. You couldn't block them fast enough, and mostly obviously AI pictures that if the comments are to be believed as being actual humans...people believed were real. It was a total nightmare land. I'm sad that I have now lost contact with the few distant friends I had on there but otherwise NOTHING lost.

I'd tell you, but my area network appears to have already started blocking DeepSeek.

I'm a big fan of a particularly virtual table-top tool called Foundry, which I use to host D&D games.

The Instagram algorithm picked this out of my cookies and fed it to Temu, which determined I must really like... lathing and spot-wielding and shit. So I keep getting ads for miniature industrial equipment. At-home tools for die casting and alloying and the like. From Temu! Absolutely crazy.

Thanks.
Now do Reddit comments.

When I was looking for a job, I ran into a guide to make money using AI:

1. Choose a top selling book.

2. Ask Chat GPT to give a summary for each chapter.

3. Paste the summaries into Google docs.

4. Export as PDF.

5. Sell on Amazon as a digital “short version” or “study guide” for the original book.

6. Repeat with other books.

Blew my mind how much hot stinking garbage is out there.

There’s an AI reply option now. Interested to know how far that is off just being part of the regular comments.

A friend told me he saw 16 posts before he saw a post from a friend or page he’d liked.

They want dumb users consuming ai content, they need LLM content because the remaining users are too stupid to generate the free content that people actually want to click.

Then they pump ads to you based on increasingly targeted AI slop selling more slop.

I made the mistake of clicking like on an Indian machine shop (I admired how they made do with crude conditions). Well now I get bombarded with not just those videos but Mexican welding shops, Pakistani auto repair places...

6% old people re-sharing. The other 54% were bot accounts.

Deekseek that was not encrypting data

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/deepseek_database_left_open/

Not enough attention is given to the literal arms race we find ourselves in. Most big tech buzz is all "yay innovation!" Or "oh no, jobs!"

Don't get me wrong, the impact AI will have on pretty much every industry shouldn't be underestimated, and people are and will lose their jobs.

But information is power. Sun Tzu knew this a long time ago. The AI arms race won't just change job markets - it will change global markets, public opinion, warfare, everything.

The ability to mass produce seemingly reliable information in moments - and the consequent inability to trust or source information in a world flooded by it...

I can't find the words to express how dangerous it is. The long-term consequences are going to be on par with - and terribly codependent with - the consequences of the industrial revolution.

I wouldn’t be surprised, but I’d be interested to see what they used to make that determination. All of the AI detection I know of are prone to a lot of false-positives.

According to Wiz, DeepSeek promptly fixed the issue when informed about it.

Yeah. This is a way bigger problem with this article than anything else. The entier thing hinges on their AI-detecting AI working. I have looked into how effective these kinds of tools are because it has come up at my work, and independent review of them suggests they're, like, 3-5 times worse than the (already pretty bad) accuracy rates they claim, and disproportionatly flag non-native English speakers as AI generated. So, I'm highly skeptical of this claim as well.

38% of the population as user. 20% daily active users. The classic way to grow is to squeeze the users and advertisers more and more with fees, subscriptions, tiers, ... I guess the exodus at X has them spooked of what could happen if they continue with that plan, so they're trying this AI thing.

SocialFixer would help.