This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"Before the Internet" in a headline and then 2 paragraphs later "using the Internet". Bravo.
And confusing "the Internet" with the http protocol shows a total lack of basic knowledge and also a wonderful teaching moment to incorporate into your article. Missed opportunity in a race to crank out drivel and get some AI seo traffic.
It’s usually called the Web though, not http as only one of the technical details involved.
That's 100% a better term to use. I just always feel silly when I say it in my head because it's ambiguous as fuck for me.
Right? The term online didn't really enter the vernacular until the internet was a thing.
While I agree with "Fuck Nazis" the headline is shit
YES ! Drink the AI kool-aid, you fools ! Drown yourselves in it, if you please. Do what you do best and surrender your humanity to a new master ! Stupid fascists.
Makes sense they would. They can’t create only coopt.
I don't think this is right-wing specific. You could probably draw similar conclusions coming from an Islamist angle. And this so-called AI is going to be next "frontier" is not all that clear to me yet. It's a nebulous threat at this stage that starts with a lot of "imagine if" arguments. We don't know yet. It's worth paying attention. But we don't know if HitLLMer chatbots are going to cause more damage than the concentration camp simulation games that preceded them.
There is a good 15% of people who are drank the koolaid right-wing believers. I don't think that number has changed much in the last century. The number that changes is how many of the less extreme or undecided people in the middle they can convince they're right.
The internet is only as regulated as the least regulating country on this planet. So all it takes is a tiny island nation or a principality left over in time to break the chain. It's also conceivable (imagine if!) that a fine, upstanding citizen like Elon Musk uses the change he found in his couch cushions to circumvent any regulatory efforts anywhere to distribute otherwise regulated content via his private satellite network. The answer cannot be "let's limit speech more." The answer must be "fight back with truth and facts." If asshole ideologists use all the digital tools available to spread their bullshit, we need to fund initiatives that counter that speech with the same tools.
The whole concept of drowning out bad information with good information doesn't work. It was just a theory about communication that has been proven wrong countless times.
