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Gabriel
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@CouRageJD @KyleGarnerMO It doesn’t matter to you that she wasn’t even picked democratically? Genuinely asking. I could never vote for the plant
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@KyleGarnerMO It’s disgusting.
I don’t even consider myself a Democrat but there wasn’t even a decision here. I can’t even fathom voting for someone who spews vitriol, election doubts, an insurrection, and all of his criminal past.
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@instagram Instagram, please fix your account suspension bug that happened may 24. A lot of people lost accounts and were unable to regain access after following the automated steps
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Sophia Ziskin — DJ, music manager and model — uses her talents to bring people together.
“My ultimate aim is to cultivate a sense of connection and unity ... even just through sharing a song or a new favorite recipe on Instagram and having people relate to it. I crave that connection and feel that everything I do harnesses some sort of bond.”
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@instagram Ususpend the accounts wrongfully suspended please, been almost a month now
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When this kitty needs anything, we have to paws 🐈⬛✨
#WeeklyFluff
🎥: pawsandclawscatrescue
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@MetaNewsroom Y’all recently banned or suspended a bunch of legitimate accounts where people stored years of photos and memories and still have not acknowledged it or said when it will be fixed. There are hundreds or thousands of scam bots running free here and on insta right now getting bans
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New research showed that a Supernatural VR workout is equivalent to common cardio and fitness activities such as running, boxing and swimming. about.fb.com/news/2024/06/n…
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@mosseri @ry_paddy Sir, people are losing their accounts on insta and would like a formal announcement from anyone at instagram ackowledging the issue and a possible timeline on when it will be fixed. Surely it doesn’t take this long for a company that deals in social media to post a response?
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This is an image you may have seen doing the rounds at some point. It explains why modern culture is getting really f*cking boring.
When you run the numbers, the only places it makes sense to take a shot from are outside the D (3 points) or right next to the basket (2 points). As a result, nowadays every team in the NBA plays basketball this way.
But it is not just basketball (or, famously, baseball) that has adopted “moneyball”. Like an incredibly contagious virus, the philosophy of moneyball has rapidly spread, infecting the entirety of human culture.
In 2022, the 10 most popular films in the world included eight franchise sequels (Top Gun, Jurassic Park, Avatar, Minions, a Shrek spinout, three Marvel movies), and a rehash of Batman. In 2023, we got four sequels (two more Marvels, the umpteenth Fast and Furious instalment and Mission Impossible: Is it Possible Tom Cruise Is Still Making These Films) plus two spinouts from toys (Barbie, Super Mario). There was also a rehash of the Little Mermaid. To round things off, the angelic Timothée Chalamet brought us Wonka, a prequel to a film that was a rehash of a film that was a rehash of a book.
Barely anything original makes it into the charts any more. We get moneyball movies instead, reliable content that is kind of sh*t but comfortably familiar.
It’s the same story in music. The music industry has been getting steadily more data-driven (read: boring) since the early ‘90s. Studies indicate pop hits are getting more similar over time. Country is fast becoming one of the most popular music genres in the world, and it all sounds the same.
So no, it’s not just you.
Everything is getting more boring.
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Maybe non-traditional media is different?
Nah.
Thanks to short form video on TikTok, Youtube and Instagram, you are now fed a constant, frustratingly addictive stream of the-same-but-slightly-different video clips whenever you open your phone. In the battle to monopolise your time, these algorithms optimise for easy to consume mental fast food that they know you’ll like just enough to keep watching.
In spite of yourself, you are sucked in, scrolling and scrolling for just one more hit from the mind numbing bong of boring.
This whole industry is about to get a steroid injection. As AI becomes more ingrained in our culture, the media we create and the very paper we write on gets embedded with universal, data-driven, computer generated “intelligence". This can almost wholly replace human curation, creation and even relationships.
It is also where things start to get rather sinister.
Tiktok has recently been openly paying people to pump out really, really dumb conspiracy theory content generated with AI.
Last year, some lady “married” her chatbot.
We are not far from a place where the vast majority of images, videos, news articles, movies, food recipes, psychological counselling programs, educational syllabuses, conversations or whatever you can think of are being generated almost entirely by algorithms, based on simple prompts.
We are no longer creating. We are, in many ways, simply lending our voice to an algorithm. The world, as a result, becomes ever more shaped and optimised according to the goals of our corporate machine overlords. Their primary objective? To leverage the data you provide to generate profits.
The risk is that each of us will end up trapped in a dumbed down algorithmic bubble of our own creation, exposed to far fewer ideas that challenge us, or bring us outside of our comfort zone.
Everything you see taste feel think believe will be algorithmically predicted, narrowed, pre-ordained.
Sounds really f*cking boring.
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I am, however, an optimist.
Things go in cycles. I do not think this will last.
What makes you uniquely human is, in many ways, the exact opposite of all of this. It is the way that your right brain - the chaotic, emotional, intuitive, creative, big-picture part of it - balances your left - the rational, orderly, linear process manager.
The part of you that feels things - joy, pain, love, humour, sadness and anger - is a key input in your ability to innovate. It will become increasingly valuable in a world that is saturated with data and sameness.2
In fact, this magic, when combined with AI, has the potential to unleash creativity and variety at never seen before scales. Things like this hilarious C3PO rap video from @daniel_eckler / @spacecadet can already be made by one person. We’ve come a long way from Will Smith eating spaghetti, in a very, very short space of time. The potential for the future is boundless.
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I imagine the current excitement about AI feels a lot like the early days of the internet. A miraculous new technology promises a world where anything is possible, and anyone can be a part of it.
But the internet, and in many ways the world, came to be controlled by a small number of companies, and steered to serve their objectives. AI may well push us further down that path. This is, in fact, exactly what the VC firms backing Open AI, Anthropic et al. are betting on.3
What we must be careful to protect going forwards is our humanity.
Our emotions, our chaos, our randomness and its variety. The yin to AI’s yang.
We still don’t really understand how the human brain works. Is it plugged into some sort of universal consciousness substrate? Does it work via some form of quantum mechanics?
What is for certain is that it doesn’t work like a modern AI. You think, and create, in a very different, independent, unpredictable way.
And that is exactly what makes the world interesting.
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Shout out to @DKThomp who inspired this post!
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@harleysalicent @instagram @OliviaSui @anggiarratana That’s insane, but what’s worse is that they don’t seem to acknowledge an issue so we don’t even know if they are tracking the problem or not..
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@BuiltCoffin @instagram @OliviaSui @anggiarratana 13 years of memories is just gone now because they wrongly suspended me, I appealed it and one of their bots rejected the appeal and now it’s disabled. I’m so distraught
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Peeping on your crush’s account = science 👩🔬
@OliviaSui @anggiarratana
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@andymstone Are you aware of issues affecting accounts being suspended multiple times even after being reinstated, and if so is there an estimated time for fixes to be pushed?
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This claim is wildly inaccurate and isn't even what the underlying story actually says.
Frances Haugen@FrancesHaugen
Meta switched this year to using AI/no human in the loop reports for child abuse material to save $ - meaning the govt. can no longer legally use them without a warrant. Side benefit for Meta - fewer child abuse cases link back to them, at the cost of children’s safety. techoversight.org/2024/01/19/the…
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@instagram @ICC @liam_crix Seems you guys have a not so obscure issue with multiple peoples accounts being suspended
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Cricket. Trick it. 🏏💯
The @ICC #T20WorldCup begins today and @liam_crix is unveiling a few of his freshest freestyle bat tricks to celebrate the start of the highly anticipated cricket tournament.
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@instagram Been locked out of my @instagram for 24 hours now, just a constant pop up “we are sorry but something went wrong” how can I fix it????
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