The Internet is All Over

The most heavenly of ops.

I do want to know about the ten celebrities who met Chappell Roan tho

I'm around 11 minutes in, a few clarifications. Advanced chatbots have existed since 2015, maybe 2014. Microsoft's Tay was released in early 2016. GPT-1 was released in 2017. AI-generated games like AI dungeon came out in 2019. I think NovelAI came out in 2018 or 2019. The FBI recently busted a Russian operation (not talking about Tim Pool here), where they used an entirely automated tool that would automate generating people, give them personalities, twitter accounts, create profiles, it would set up even two factor authentication, and these people, with their entirely fake profiles would go on Twitter and engage in conversation, often weaving the Russian party line into their personality. Of course, it's not only Russia doing it. Of course, then you have to deal with paid agents, and how even before AI, large amounts of random internet communication wasn't authentic. It's not just twitter, but things like random Facebook users trying to get you in on a crypto scam, Skype basically… existing to be a cryptoscam platform now, prospectors on LinkedIn, etc. More and more the internet is corrupted not just by fakery, but by people being encouraged to be inauthentic. It drove the cost of faking status down to literally zero, and AI drove it down even further. The internet is still great, but you should approach it with the knowledge that strangers are not to be taken seriously.

if youtube was a dating site… what was he doing at the zoo?!?

I don't know how President Beast keeps getting elected when his "100 days without healthcare!" and "Country tries going without infrastructure spending. You won't believe what happens!!!" Programs were such resounding failures.

What killed the internet? Inverted totalitarianism

Have you listened to the magnus archives podcast?

Why did you let them kick you out the mall bro?

2:00:15

That's exactly what's happening. Last year I was looking for work as a copy-writer and like 90% of the freelance jobs I saw advertised were for taking copy written by AI and making it sound like a human wrote it.

#shill

Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of "the internet is bad" videos. Yes, we know and many us get why… Can we be done with this now?

The perfect end to the vid would be – Ceausescu wasn't a dictator and he was killed in CIA backed coup.

Brilliant!

The internet as a dead mall is the most depressing cognitohazard visualization I've had to process in awhile.

20:38 hi, I'm a hippie, you good. Vibes are pretty on point.

I don’t think ai is a problem I just think of it as a tool like a brush, I mean look at how vastly different ai creations from multiple people are, it’s just the next step to be completely immersed in creativity you can literally get what you have in your mind on page by typing it into a prompt just think for a second how actually amazing that is

1:50:35 as a big fan of licking pavement, asphalt, etc.- you are categorically incorrect.

Dang, this made me feel nostalgia for what the internet used to be, sad and angry about what it’s become, and apathetic about where it will probably go. Thank you for this extremely well-researched deep dive.

Yep. There are a ton of eccentric sociopaths running a ton of AI accounts and fake influencer accounts in general. You can’t rely on any info online anymore. Everyone with a decent following is being bribed, too.

I'm only a little over an hour through this here, & this is quite detailed, but IMO, it lacks detail in some really common ways to 'early internet discussions'. I mean, when I first encountered the internet in the early to mid '90's, there were newsgroups &, shortly thereafter, personal websites (going solely by memory, personal websites started to pop up more after '96-'98, but that might have only been when I became more aware of them). Also, Geocities appeared around the same time. & those newsgroups were vibrant, weird, warring spaces where there were whole bunches of people collaborating on projects (programs, IF, roleplays, whatever) in these really interesting ways. & they had bot problems even then. & then there were messenger apps like ICQ, AIM, Yahoo messenger & about a dozen others that sorta gained traction in that '96-98 period too. & again, bots. Automated scams were pretty common, but equally pretty unsophisticated. I'd argue, however, that they were sorta the precursors to modern AI. They only had set databases of phrases, but the chat ones would be programmed to act as though they were responding to a user chatting to them.
Blogging in the 2000's was precluded by sites like OpenDiary & the aforementioned personal websites in the mid to late '90's. & there were always wars about monetization & banner ads. Some of those things made their way into meatspace, too, & became 'real'; Matthew Good – of Matthew Good Band fame – had a weird ol' website filled with some pretty out there musings/fiction(?).
I'm probably being really pedantic tho*. & definitely showing my age.

* & obviously this none of these are really any more important than the instances you noted either, & arguably some of them are a lot less.

Sadly the human centipede epistemology outcome seems most likely, given the incentives for the garbage people creating these LLMs.

we need a nationalized social media platform. im tired of being banned from instagram and facebook for defending myself against bigoted groups who send me death threats with no repercussions. i lost my facecbook account of ten years after speaking out agains the bigotry in the comments section of a turning point usa video. i was ganged up on by trump supporting fascists, and after calling them bigots, was mass reported, as usual, and instantntly permabanned, and requested an appeal, and denied within 4 minutes, whoever reviewed my account was obviously biased. now i have no course of appeal.
a nationalized alternative wouldnt need to outright replace private companies, but at least an alternative where the moderation terms werent comprised entirely of the whims of some random bigoted anonymous employee.