The "social credit score" in China was blown out of proportion too. It probably changed since I last looked into it. But when that shit was all over American media it was literally the equivalent of a background check or credit score in the US. Work history, loan and credit history, etc.

Like, it's funny how we can have essentially the same exact thing but only critize China's version of it. Make it scary by adding "social" to the name. People ate that shit up.

Edit: to be clear I think both should be critized. Especially related to criminal history bias on race. But we spend more time talking about the Chinese version that doesn't actually effect anyone's lives in the US.

Mods already use bots to preemptively ban you based on what subreddits you have left comments on regardless of context.

And Black Mirror was before that with the idea.

If I get it to call itself a clanker does that count?

If I was still posting on Reddit, shit like this would immediately prompt me to delete all my stuff

Unfortunately, you know it will. If it can be done, someone will do it.

Honestly the fediverse is already a bit of a privacy nightmare, and people refuse to take it seriously. Our version of this horror will include your comments and voting activity and likely a bunch of other telemetry which isn't public on reddit. Oh and it won't just be a single "official" AI agent, it will be dozens of them from every corporate or government which wants to build a user database and keep it around forever.

We could bake real privacy protection into our fediverse apps, but the admins and devs seem to have completely punted on this.

It would be literally about 3 hours of coding for someone to make one of those, and another few days to feed the fediverse into it.

Omg, you are such a Monica.

Human personalities can be clustered into which member of the cast of Friends they most resemble.

Fortunately, Friends is so brilliantly written that they managed to capture the entire spectrum of human diversity.

(this is snark. I am totally a Chandler.)

https://lemmynsfw.com/c/boobs

https://lemmynsfw.com/ exists, so..

I did, but the key difference is that it didn’t make an evaluation for you. It just gave you a collection of facts with some hard-coded things to look out for.

The new thing is way worse. It’s just skipping the facts part entirely.

I personally wouldn't go that far. But, yeah, we need to de-tech-ify a bit. And I am all for steal the control of the internet back from giant corporations.

Narrator : "they were all shit heads"

The same way that you can look at someone's post history, skim it, and more or less understand what their deal is.

Most users on reddit don't have this diverse set of interests or posts. Most of them post on the same subs and repeat the same types of posts... ad nauseam. Most people, online, aren't much more sophisticated in their language use or POV or anything... than a bot.

Sure, 10 years ago you'd look at someone's post history and it would be all over the place, and they'd be writing detailed and nuaced paragraphics in lots of detail... but that's not what reddit is like anymore, or most of the internet really. God I remember when libertarians actually had decent theoretical argumentation to defend their viewpoints... and now it's just memes and cliche phrases repeated over and over.

Pretty easy for any LLM to parse a person who just incessantly posts about the same stuff over and over. And if it came across someone doing long-form explanatory stuff... it would just ignore that data since that doesn't fit the task LLM is designed to process.

(considering amazon reviews are completely dogshit and mostly bought off I'd imagine not very)