If you want to call yourself an artist, do the work yourself, Stephen.

You limpdick, no talent ass clown.

You’re right. It’s almost the line word-for-word.

Are we sure it wasn’t AI?

It could happen, but I doubt it. The last time the US had a legitimate anti-war movement, it was in large part due to the draft.

Nothing more American than a draft dodger sending others to die.

“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it works out for him.”

Yes.

This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.

They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings. After all, they’re certainly contracted with various federal entities.

That is, if they gave a shit.

I read somewhere that Anthropic has $18,000,000,000 in commitments from last year alone, so conceivably, they can stand to lose a mere $200,000,000 and it won’t create a huge issue for them in the short term.

I hope that’s how they’re looking at it.

100%

I think that’s a very easy thing to say, but for the younger generations, using social media isn’t too dissimilar from breathing. It’s just something you do.

You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

I could get behind this.

Respectfully, I’ve heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.

What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.

This is good info, and you’re right. Engagement is driven by provocative and radicalizing content.

I’d love to see any solution centered around the individual and a lengthy lockdown of the account associated with their IP.

Oh yeah, especially now that suicide rates are spiking, at least here in the US.

Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We’d need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM’s and automods.

Do any of us think Meta will moderate content in any meaningful way? Even for this supposed parental supervision program?

Yes, following through on a withdrawal negotiated by the Donald Administration.

But it probably did infuriate Donald supporters, just like how Dems supported the genocide in Gaza until the presidency changed hands and it was no longer convenient. Partisans have no real political convictions. It’s all a matter of convenience or just repeating whatever their algorithm tells them to think on a given day.

Man, I wish it were one-sided.

If Joe Biden had his way we’d still be in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya. (The 7 countries where Obama was making war at the end of his presidency all at the same time.)