Honestly, I can't believe it's taken this long for Americans to start rioting. Just the fact your entire life can be upended by illness should be enough to make society break out in a rage.
To fascists there's no weapon more frightening than the truth itself.
I think the backlash to LLM is already hurting all AI projects and will be especially bad when that bubble pops.
Everyone's going to think all AI, and AGI, projects are LLMs and scoff at them.
The magic that used to be tied to the term AI is dead by fraud.
In 2008, Iron Man had just come out and blown everyone's minds. iPhones were still quite new, so was Facebook. Obama got elected and everyone was excited by the first black president, even here in Australia.
The worst part is all our data is stored on American servers run by megacorpos. ID information scanned by venue terminals is one, but even private health records and sensitive government documents are being chucked into Amazon S3, Azure/OneDrive and Dropbox.
The government should be prioritising secure, independent digital infrastructure but they're too busy giving our tax dollars to foreign consulting firms so they can build bad websites.
For LGBTIQA+ kids and kids in domestic violence situations? Removing social media can be detrimental and even lead to a life threatening situation. That is simply a fact.
The eSafety Commissioner ignored submissions from mental health organisations begging them to follow a more nuanced approach, no such luck.
There is definitely a myriad of legitimate valid concerns to be had about social media. It's addictive, manipulates emotions for clicks/views and encourages ordinary people to perform shock and outrage for the algorithm. But that problem doesn't just affect young people, and I would argue that adults are just as vulnerable and the manipulation of whom has far more dangerous and immediate consequences for society.
Also on the note of predators, they didn't block problematic platforms like 4Chan or Roblox. So the pedophiles still have access to your kids, they just can't talk to their cousins or watch tutorials on YouTube. Another job well done by the Australien government.
Edit: I won't be engaging with bad faith arguments. Insta block because life is too short!
Gee, too bad no one saw this coming.... /s
As an Aussie, I'm grateful for everyday that the LNP is not back in government. Labor might be inadequate and sometimes infuriating, but they're not outright evil bastards like the opposition.
There's no risk you will develop a sense of humour, of that I am sure!
My bad! I've fixed it up so both are available. Thank you for pointing it out <3
A collection of short stories in different genres, inspired by different authors in fiction
I'm in Australia so I can definitely relate to a lot of that!
I think populists have been extremely clever to conflate historical issues relating to poverty and rural areas with trending topics like immigration and "wealthy inner city elites".
Ironically, it's the people like Trump and other right wingers who are most likely to create poor outcomes for the worst off among their own followers, but as long as those people are fuelled by rage, bigotry and a carefully constructed narrative they will remain none the wiser.