• @[email protected]
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    969 months ago

    And we thought boomers reading shit off Facebook was bad. Now they have AI feeding it to them.

    • @[email protected]
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      359 months ago

      Google: You know those LLMs?

      Engineer: Yes, what about it?

      G: So I took one of those and I vomited diarrhea into its mouth-

      E: Wait, what?

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      -199 months ago

      boomers reading shit off Facebook

      Says a generation that believes everything a YouTuber tells them lol

      Not a boomer btw

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        369 months ago

        It seems so absurd to me this could happen. For the boomers I understand, they grew up in an offline world, but the youth? They are raised on the modern web and smartphones but are often clueless too.

        Was it the unsanitized, wild west internet era of the late 90s/early 2000s that hardened the millennials against online bullshitting?

        • @benignintervention
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          169 months ago

          Now that I’m thinking about the good old days of virus pop-ups and limewire cancers, has the presence of malware changed that much? Or it is less visible due to mobile architecture and pop-up blockers?

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          129 months ago

          It sure feels that way, explaining to kids that YouTubers will say anything to get you to keep watching, meanwhile the elderly are following Qanon bullshit.

        • @Agrivar
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          19 months ago

          You think millennials are immune to it? I feel like it’s only Gen-X that’s both cynical enough and was here for the birth of it, to be properly skeptical of everything online.

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        What generation? I’m an elder millenial and I always thought Google Video/Vimeo/Youtube was/is shit for any kind of actual informential content. Music videos, meme videos - sure. Other than that, veeerrry great amount of suss on any info presented. Same goes for 90+% of people of my generation, who know what kind of a jokepool 90’s/early 2000’s internet was.

        So what gen are you referring to?