Re: you don't want AI? Too bad, we're force feeding it

On Wed, 21 May 2025 17:27:26 -0600, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

On 21 May 2025 15:44:03 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote or quoted:

You want more "AI"? No? Well, too damn bad, here's "AI" in your file manager.

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Demand regulatory action? From the cast of idiots currently in power? Good luck - they're
all hawking cryptocurrencies.  No chance - we are screwed.
Makes you want to go back to dial up.  Abrasive, arrogant tech nerds thinking they can
upload whatever they want via your always-on connection is a huge part of the problem.

some particularly vitriolic and relentlessly aggressive advertising has been
hammering at least several popular privacy-related newsgroups (promoting nym
dot com blockchain and similarly nefarious "tor-mailer" storefront/honeypots)
operating as if (classified) artificial intelligence is already running their
show... like a terminator that does only one thing and cannot ever be stopped