Social Media for those of a certain age?

[Tiki Tom]

Pandora’s box, indeed.

“Academic publishing may have to accommodate a future of AI Driven manuscripts.”

https://news.yahoo.com/ai-bot-wrote-scientific-paper-125800118.html

So, soon, a large percentage of peer reviewed research will be written by AI. Hopefully, this means that scientific progress (which has already been accelerating quickly) will continue to accelerate, leading to undreamed of progress.

OR…. Is it too far of a stretch to take it one step further? All news articles, screen plays, novels, etc, will come with the standard acknowledgement that “This piece was written by AI.” Such writing will be cheap and easy to produce and driven by an algorithm to attract the maximum number of readers by playing to their predisposition to read things that reinforce their own biases. Thus, a self reinforcing whirlpool will be created, sucking the world into distopia.

Have a nice day!

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
Can’t wait!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Manufactured bread and mass-produced circuses.

 

[Zombie_61]

Manufactured bread and mass-produced circuses.

Don't we already have those?

 

[Who?]

The wait is over. It’s here!
”Alexa, I know grandma died last month, but can you have her read me a bedtime story?”
”why, yes, Jimmy. Here she is.”

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/amazon-alexa-voice-dead-grandmother-1235301516/

“Alexa, can you say creepy?”

This comment is a masterpiece of understatement.

The very idea makes my skin crawl.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Article about how AI is beginning to replace creative writing. Full description and commentary can be found over on the “what are you writing?” Thread. (The AI program has gotten so good that the writer’s husband cannot tell the difference between what she wrote, and what was generated by AI mimicking her style.)

https://www.theverge.com/c/23194235/ai-fiction-writing-amazon-kindle-sudowrite-jasper

 

[Tiki Tom]

And now artificial intelligence is taking on the visual arts: “A.I. generated picture won an art prize. Artists aren’t happy.”’

https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/02/an-a-i-generated-picture-won-an-art-prize-artists-arent-happy/

The starving artist biz, just got a little more competitive and a little less bohemian.

 

[Who?]

Facebook ….. Ugh!

 

[Tiki Tom]

This Is why I always use a Kermit the Frog voice whenever I’m on the phone.

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/vall-e-synthetic-voice-ai-microsoft

 

[Tiki Tom]

The end is nigh.
Although it is easy to blame young men and say that they are all losers, I suspect that (as usual) the truth is more complicated and there is plenty of blame to go around.
I must also admit that, if I was again an “un-dateable” man in my twenties (full Time fast food job, full load of Junior College classes, junk heap car, no sense of humor about my situation) this would be a tempting solution, indeed.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/candy-ai-fastest-growing-ai-203000778.html

As I’ve said many times: “Thank goodness I am not a young person in today’s day and age.”

 

[FOXTROT LAMONT]

This AI colleen craze is daft, besides any young man with too much to do and little time won't have
need of this rubbish I'll say.

 

[tonyb]

The end is nigh.
Although it is easy to blame young men and say that they are all losers, I suspect that (as usual) the truth is more complicated and there is plenty of blame to go around.
I must also admit that, if I was again an “un-dateable” man in my twenties (full Time fast food job, full load of Junior College classes, junk heap car, no sense of humor about my situation) this would be a tempting solution, indeed.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/candy-ai-fastest-growing-ai-203000778.html

As I’ve said many times: “Thank goodness I am not a young person in today’s day and age.”

A fellow I knew going back 30 years or so was happily predicting a time when technology would give us virtual sex partners indistinguishable from actual living, breathing humans.

It would hardly be love-making, I offered, but rather just a more technologically sophisticated form of pornography, a fancy masturbation aid, batteries included. That appeared to make no impression on him.

I’ve read multiple sources reporting on the frequency of sexual activity among younger people. It seems that young adults aren’t getting horizontal as frequently as their parents and grandparents did at their age.

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink?

 

[Zombie_61]

...I’ve read multiple sources reporting on the frequency of sexual activity among younger people. It seems that young adults aren’t getting horizontal as frequently as their parents and grandparents did at their age...

I see a lot of these "young adults" every time I leave the house. If I were a young woman today, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to get horizontal with these dimwitted homunculi.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
I heard pretty much the same thing said about “dirty hippies” 50-plus years ago.

 

[Zombie_61]

^^^^^^
I heard pretty much the same thing said about “dirty hippies” 50-plus years ago.

As did I. I suppose every generation goes through this process to some degree.

 

[Tiki Tom]

I think this thread has already touched on the fact that your cellphone might be spying on you. Now we have a name that we can toss out at cocktail parties. Pegasus spyware. Pretty scary stuff. Not only can it access all your phone’s data, it can also secretly turn on your phone’s microphone and camera.

What it is:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/pegasus-spyware-and-citizen-surveillance-what-you-need-to-know/

How to detect it on your phone:

https://blog.rsisecurity.com/how-to-detect-pegasus-spyware/

News update:

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...eillance-code-whatsapp-meta-lawsuit-nso-group

Makes me want to go back to typewriters, snail mail, and landlines.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Okay, practical matters:
When I open my browser, The Fedora Lounge does not automatically pop up among my “favorites”, despite the fact that I visit here frequently. Why is that? Sites that I visit far less frequently are annoyingly imbedded in my favorites list. (I’m not talking about the “add to favorites” function, but about how stuff winds up there unsought.)
A friend mumbled something about algorithms . He might as well have been speaking Greek.
How can the profile of the FL be raised?

 

[rogueclimber]

Okay, practical matters:
When I open my browser, The Fedora Lounge does not automatically pop up among my “favorites”, despite the fact that I visit here frequently. Why is that? Sites that I visit far less frequently are annoyingly imbedded in my favorites list. (I’m not talking about the “add to favorites” function, but about how stuff winds up there unsought.)
A friend mumbled something about algorithms . He might as well have been speaking Greek.
How can the profile of the FL be raised?

I just leave my browser open -- TFL is always right there!

 

[Tiki Tom]

Caught red handed: your phone really is listening to you.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...gs-listening-phones-microphone-serve-ads.html

 

[LizzieMaine]

One more reason why I refuse to own one and will never own one.

Meanwhile, it's interesting to review the comments on AI that appear up the page here, from just two years ago, and to observe how much of that has in fact come true. Facebook is a cesspool of worthless AI articles trawled from various web sources -- I've had the unsettling experience of seeing bits of things that I myself wrote many years ago spitting back at me under a phony name thanks to one of these bot accounts. And of course, when you do a Google search now, dollars to doughnuts the first thing will be an "AI Summary" that may or may not be accurate, as if anyone cares anymore.

You don't feed the algorithm, the algorithm feeds on you.