• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    26 minutes ago

    Crushed like in an industrial accident? Are you sure they weren’t slammed?

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    And the viral TikTok creator is crushing it on clicks. I don’t think this is going away anytime soon.

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      I took a peek at that app last week- even obviously AI videos are crushing it with clicks and comments saying “this is AI” do nothing but increase engagement.

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      Of course it isn’t. A large number of the population is easily misled by even mediocre AI generated content. Which generates clicks, traffick, and thus revenue (through ads).

      Why would a company with the sole priority of generating revenue, care about things like being truthful or legitimate or real, when that doesn’t generate revenue?

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    What they're supposed to be

    Waste of time, spice girl, unpictured is pothead.

    Tiktok links in article but I’m not linking them.

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    Given peopledotcom refuses to make their website actually usable (the cookie and privacy policy notice isn’t dismissable for example), I refuse to give them any level of traffic.

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      Interesting. I use Firefox with NoScript, uBlock Origin, and BypassPaywallsClean and have no issues with the site at all.

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            Well, you don’t need to… But if you want to, I would love to know you’re exhaustive list.

            I also use OpenSnitch / LittleSnitch (macOS) to block ip ranges, and telemetry/tracking services.

            I think a lot of people would be surprised to know how many CLI apps are making telemetry requests.

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    5 hours ago

    I am truly hoping they were physically crushed only for me to get emotionally crushed when I found out that nobody was crushed in any way.