No place for humans

Facebook is a circle jerk of AI posts with AI responses. Disgusting.

My encounter with an AI friend request late last year confirmed it.

Received a friend request from unknown person. My protocol for unknowns is to look it up on Facebook, delete the friend request then contact it through Messenger, asking for more details about why. I asked for specifics about what is our connection?  It's page was lurid with AI pics of orchestras, instruments, a dude in a sort of conductor attitude.

I freely admit, the hook was baited well. But it really didn't feel human at all. Plus, out of all my Messenger contacts, it was 'end to end encrypted', so presumable, it's end could not be traced. Telegram Sam?

Who needs or has time for this horse hockey?

Some weeks passed and I thought that was the end of it. Then a reply to my message, an absolute stunner of non sequitur as far as what I was asking. It said "yes, that's right, I sent you a friend request".

I repeated my question as to what specifically was our connection.

This time the reply came soon and now there was no doubt: our connection was purported to be through something it called Yutube.nxr or some such nonsense spelling, something that didn't exist and looked like a bad typo. It must have scraped content from my YouTube videos. Yet it could not form an accurate reply. There was no way I am training a waste of time and energy like that. 

I didn't reply and deleted all communications. (should have screenshot it, but, next time) 

Very poor, and you really have to wonder why Facebook exists at all today. 

It was useful and interesting when humans used it. Now we just guard our legacy markers on FB for security purposes.

The worst thing is all this subterfuge and deceit. Being open, say, call for volunteers to train your wretched AIs and <gasp> pay them, would get better results.

This won't happen because basically all these things are designed by criminals to hack us, defraud and deceive us.

Folk are onto this. AIs, not so much. It's a little fun seeing this slop bubble and gurgle, drowning us with complete lack of nuance and human spirit. 

  

Great remasters: I hope I never

I hope I never

Clear and vibrant, very expressive, you really do hear it for the first time with the remaster. A great song. 

And the sentiment - 100%.

10 years later

By contrast, the funky and celebratory Cake By The Ocean, in 10 years, has racked up nearly 800 million views between these sites, and there are a few more. 

On the lighter side lyrically, definitely, big and funky musically, yes, an uplifting ensemble piece, yes. Let's go fing crazy!

But far from innocent at 1:36 to 1:39: 

"I'll be Diddy, You'll be Naomi, Whoa" 

15 years later

 

1.2 billion views later, as of today. Screenshot, not feed, to make that stick! Duh.

 YT FtP PUK

Insanely catchy and hip, lyrically provocative for being pov of a homicidal youth. Yet in 2010, this subject was already well worn - it wasn't 1980s. 

The mumbly vocals actually age somewhat better than other material from 2010. Could be Angus Stone :-) I think this semi-melodic threnody, its tone,  is the actual message, not the words. 

The lounge-lizard perfect music is what has carried this track so far. I can't help loving it, coolest in its genre ever (followed by Cake By The Ocean).  

Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network

 Here is a new depth of tech-nasty that I had never heard of before. The unstoppable force of technical and scientific progress based on (mainly) good intentions, is met head on by the unmoveable obstacle of human greed and destructiveness solely motivated by criminal intentions. 

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network

I can't be surprised at the revelation, though I am a touch surprised at how much this issue is  completely hidden from tech-muggles who, unfortunately, can have this explained and would be none the wiser and not take any precautions.