MangoCats
That's the Lead Poisioned and Proud of it! unit.
I'd like to believe that most of the dumb stuff you see posted online is by bots trying to draw suckers to their echo chambers.
Unfortunately, I've met too many of the idiots in real life, they're definitely not all bots.
That has worked so well for the last 80 years...
Do it like this:
Well, in a way most of the AI hype is a thirst trap for CEOs — like that you can easily replace office workers with chatbots or that software developers will become 10x more efficient and consequently you can fire 90% of your workforce.
and we'll know you're an AI.
What the platforms know, but don't share very easily or at all, is how well established those accounts making the likes and comments are.
There was a time when the Facebook users count was starting to grow past the global human population...
I wonder, like others here, whether or not the same people posting the AI generated images aren't also posting responses to make it look as if the images are convincing people they are real... those "life-like" response posts can make the images themselves more convincing, to some people.
And e-mail, and FB Messenger and the rest, but people don't get that. People responding to posts in public forums think they are just talking with one other person because "I don't see anybody else here" - meanwhile, the post will stay up open and searchable for decades.
What people "don't get" is that their "private" snapchat messages are more or less equivalent to shouting in a quiet theater.
I fear that we are training our population to suppress the signs, to just "go off" without warnings. If we deploy SWAT every time somebody repeats some violent threat joke they heard in 785 movies and TV shows over the past 20 years, people are going to get better at filtering that - and actual signs that they're about to "go postal."
As for that, what happens when I'm watching some indie movie from a DVD that Alexa doesn't recognize and Alexa hears the character in the movie plotting to do some (better not say it here in detail) very plausible copycat of something like Timothy McVeigh and his little truck bomb? Alexa mistakes that audio snippet for actual people in the house and reports it...
I was the sucker who got owned by the indoctrination system.
Unfortunately, as a young moldable mind, you probably would have been owned faster and harder by the unregulated internet than any school teacher ever could.
important for Americans to cross examine sources
It always was. The difference for Bush Jr was that Americans could pull up Al Jazerra, RT, and directly chat with all kinds of people all over the globe - so the press had to start pressing harder. Back with Bush Sr in Kuwait, I had a friend from Jordan who spent his evenings listening to his short-wave to get "real news" about what was going on back home - what he heard was apparently a lot more accurate and complete than what we got from TV. It has always been like that, since forever.
cite as fact details where I distinctly remember otherwise.
The "facts" on the internet evolve over time. My favorite to repeat is, God rest his soul, Scott Adams' case of ideopathic aphasia - he lost much of his ability to speak (probably a mini-stroke, definitely some kind of brain damage) - he blogged about it openly, candidly, it was an engaging story. Then a few years later he underwent a rather strong shift of political outlook he felt he had "worked hard for all his money and shouldn't be forced to share any of it" - his touchy feely sharing about his brain damage was expunged from the web (to the best of his ability, which, with all that money he worked so hard for, was pretty effective)... but he can't erase the thousands of memories of people who read his writings at the time.
We need to be teaching media literacy in grade school.
My parents were teachers from the 1970s through the 2010s... my father crusaded to spread the teaching of critical thinking, he did his part, made a difference as much as anyone, but he was on the losing side through those decades. Maybe things will turn around someday, they usually do go in cycles.
utilizing resources on the internet to help them cope in a society that doesn’t like deviance very much.
If anything has deluded you into the idea that deviance is more persecuted today than it was in the past, you have been fed a whopper of a lie. Again, back through my personal knowledge of the 1970s, the open racism, LGBQT intolerance, etc. that was widely practiced back then makes what goes around today look like playtime.
I’m neurodivergent and I’m queer
Go around saying that openly in the 1970s, you wouldn't get far in most US towns before being beaten into a multi-week hospital stay, or worse.
I suspect more kids would benefit from internet access
I suspect a large part of our current troubles come from "the masses" having internet access, because that gives the internet access to them, and through that we got Cambridge Analytica, and much much more...
robust training in media literacy
Nice sentiment, but the who exactly is going to teach them? I think this is actually a big motivator in the destruction of the US education system.
than would be aided by a device ban in school (or by age-gating social media).
Yeah, I don't think those are helping anything either - more symptomatic of yet another authoritarianism flex.
Our neighbor the beat cop always said: "in the end, all they want is the right kind of friction."