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It’s too stressful to worry about divesting from everything all the time. We do our best here in the swamp
We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.
I concur, though my job has me integrating some open ai into our software. Not much I can do besides so what they like, bit of transcription and summary.
Had a coworker give me replies from gpt for an issue . I could tell easily because I had worked with similar data for years (parsing PBX data for calls) and knew the reply had errors. Like I know I can have issues parsing our data sometimes but it was insulting he gave an AI reply. So I nicely pointed out all the errors in the reply saying I assumed it was from ai. Mean did it nicely he was trying to help (and is a really nice dude) but still I know how to google and sift as well as ai probably does. And if I get the answer I remember it due due to the work I did.
I have no great love for the current administration and nor do I agree with most of its policies.
But I’m definitely going to have to see a source on the claims mentioned in this post.
Are you an idiot or have you not been paying attention?
This isn’t “I need a source” type stuff. They aren’t hiding this…they just aren’t talking about it on their platforms, for obvious reasons.
Do you know who Elon Musk is? Jeff Bezos? Larry Ellison?
You should. Because they are paying a lot of money to have nearly exclusive control (among themselves) of all national media.
Meanwhile, Sinclair and Nexstar are fighting to control all of the local broadcast stations. They aren’t just buying up the station, they are buying the reputations of the known and trusted local news-anchors. That shit is priceless when you are running a propaganda machine.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
You should. Because they are paying a lot of money to have nearly exclusive control (among themselves) of all national media
Once again, I’m going to need to see some proof.
All I see are wild-ass claims. Claims, claims, claims.
Seriously, what’s happening in the U.S. is insane. I am ashamed of my country. But one thing I’m tired of is these wild claims from all sides, by the way. You think the right MAGA camp isn’t making the same wild accusations against the left? They are. My request remains the same: show me some fucking proof.
I get what you’re saying but honestly I’m finding it quite surprising that you’re on Lemmy and haven’t already seen it a billion times.
Alright, the founder of Oracle…One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison…had a kid. David. David owns Skydance Media. He founded it in 2010. Daddy helped him round up the capital to acquire Paramount, last year.
Here’s what that got him.. But importantly, CBS (including many local stations)
Now he’s trying (and thus far succeeding) to also buy Warner Brothers. Here’s what’s in that package. Importantly, CNN.
Oh yeah, he also has a big stake in TikTok, via Oracle.
You know Jeff Bezos, yea? He bought WaPo a while ago now, and over the past couple of years has been asserting more influence over the content of the paper, drawing sharp criticism. Relevant.
We all know about Rupert Murdoch. No sense talking about him.
And we all know who owns Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and what a colossal piece of shit he is.
And who owns X, and how he makes Zuck look like a rabbit turd.
I really hope I don’t have to explain Sinclair and Nexstar to you. They’ve been buying up practically every local broadcast affiliate. In my area, all local broadcast news is controlled by these two companies. Sinclair especially has been called out a few times calling for national runs of their highly opinionated script (“this is extremely dangerous to our democracy”).
And then, there’s /u/spez. Fuck /u/spez.
For extra credit, Peter Theil. Manipulative, conniving, petty piece of shit that he is. Founded Palantir, the surveillance mecha. Look how he used Hulk Hogan for litigious revenge. Major Trump supporter. Huge bigot. Vance’s mentor. An openly gay, apartheid, libertarian bigot. You can’t make this shit up.
There’s a lot for you to go on here. It’s not like I can just give you a link that explains everything. You really need to be following along because there’s years of shit to unpack here, and as they enjoy controlling the news, they aren’t going to be outright about telling you about it. You’ve got to dig.
I get it. I feel like a conspiracy nutter now too. But I don’t have the time to hold your hand and open your eyes to the reality that’s been surrounding you for years. It’s there. Look.
The fourth estate is entirely controlled by billionaire interests that are friends, donors, and protectors of Trump. It’s not hidden.
Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won’t miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.
Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.
Yeah we are talking about it, Melanie. Go outside.
There was basically one positive aspect of them going for this sort of model: they are very incompetent at actually controlling such a media conglomerate monster, specially as it grows. Now there’s AI, there’s social network personality cults-on-demand, they can increasingly and reliably offload the control to what are essentially primordially mental surgery bisected intelligence that can be cloned on demand. They are increasingly working to create the digital human cattle slaughterhouses they’ve always wanted.
Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I’ll be out of here in a heartbeat
The Conservative Propaganda Machine
Right. So don’t start using the stupid Internet shit that’s always been stupid. Thanks!
Phew, at least they’re not owned by the state, like those damn commies. /s
Add Google, Microslop, and Apple to the list as they love to bend the knee to kiss the ring.
There’s only so much you can do when your operating systems are run by fascists.
But they “deeply” care about your “privacy”.
People should spend a little time watching The PBS News Hour if they imagine it’s still an alternative to this sort of thing. Yes, it’s aimed at retired liberals, but it has become astonishing seeing how it toes the corporate line and how it sane-washes the stuff Trump and his cronies are saying and doing.
This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he’s gone.
Those corporations are “donating” (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it’s not charity.
Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose… that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.
See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.
“Lobbying”
Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).
Is this any different than making a post on Reddit encouraging people to switch to Lemmy?
Does that make it less ironic?
If someone is on Xitter (or Reddit, or wherever) and using it, what means would you use to ask them to stop using it and suggest an alternative platform?
I would use the platform… Ironically.
If these people could read…
Well it makes sense, the people who most need to think about this are people consuming the content on the sites.
Alternatively, it just would be preaching to the choir.
