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If you needed another reason why LLMs are problematic, read this.

The problem is that any popularity algorithm can be manipulated. This is something we have seen with search SEO, with social media algorithms and now with LLMs. People will try to manipulate these algorithms for marketing reasons and sadly for more nefarious reasons.

For me, the first step of any solution is to ban user profiling.

newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-

NewsGuard's Reality Check · A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propagandaBy NewsGuard
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" I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore. "

Horrifying. As Voltaire said, "if they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities"

Ruining people's ability to judge truth from fiction will help Gilead tolerate the Concentration Camps

#GenAI#Fascism#AI

'LAPD knew protests were coming: 2 days earlier, the dept received👉advanced warning 👈on #Dataminr, a socialmedia #surveillance firm ...and👉“official partner” of X👈.

....LosAngeles #ACAB Department emails obtained via public records show city police used Dataminr to track Gaza-related demonstrations and other constitutionally protected #freespeech.'

"#LAPD Surveilled #Gaza #Protests Using #SocialMedia Tool"

theintercept.com/2025/03/17/la #CyberSecurity #DomesticSpying #CyberStalking @palestine

The Intercept · LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media ToolBy Sam Biddle

Another good talk I went to at #TechShowLondon was about sway.ly/
This is a service that uses "AI"/LLMs to flag (rather than block) social media posts for families.

It is most successful when parents use it as well as their kids, and there's some gamification involved so that kids are more likely to use it rather than bypass the service, and includes an amount of trust as it doesn't snitch on the family members.

It's still in beta at the moment, but is in interesting use of automated systems that flag social media harms without being overly censorious.

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Right Wing Wackos are fully in favor of letting their guy have a third term in office. They do not give a shit about the Constitution. They control SCOTUS.

We have to quit pretending. We have to quit playing by rules that no longer apply. We MUST draft Barack Obama to run for POTUS right now.