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Finally a war they can win!

Ok but how do we put ads on it?

I think there’s a problem with people wanting a fully developed brand new technology right out the gate. The cell phones of today didn’t happen overnight, it started with a technology that had limitations and people innovated.

AI is a technology that has limitations, people will innovate it. Hopefully.

I think my favorite potential use case for AI is academics. There are countless numbers of journal articles that get published by students, grad students and professors, and the vast majority of those articles don’t make an impact. Very few people read them, and they get forgotten. Vast amounts of data, hypotheses and results that might be relevant to someone trying to do something good, important or novel but they will never be discovered by them. AI can help with this.

Of course there’s going to be problems that come up. Change isn’t good for everyone involved, but we have to hope that there is a net good at the end. I’m sure whoever was invested in the telegram was pretty choked when the phone showed up, and whoever was invested in the carrier pigeon was upset when the telegram showed up. People will adapt, and society will benefit. To think otherwise is the cynical take on the same subject. The glass is both half full and half empty. You get to choose your perspective on it.

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The druid uses a sword. Made of metal.

Other than that it was entertaining, however from a critical standpoint it seems like they tried to fit too many storylines into a movie that wasn’t long enough to support them. Could have easily been 2, or 3 movies worth of content.

Oh I’m sure it’s a priority, just not in the way he means.

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It’s the new form of marketing really. Ads aren’t super effective anymore as they’ve reached saturation and are showing severely diminished returns, so the next thing you can do is to create bot posts in the form of ‘product testimonials’ similar to what a person would see on amazon reviews, but from a source they’re more likely to trust such as a subreddit comment chain.
Ie. Initial: I use [product], going on 15 years etc.
Reponse: I use it too works great.
Alt response: I use [diff. product], its cheaper but works the same.

The “buy it for life” subreddit was full of them.

Of course it gets a little more inisidious when it’s not just used for pushing products, but instead pushing ideas or propaganda. It’s commonly referred to as psyops, and they try to maintain a steady presence on any popular online forum. It was a big problem on Tumblr for a long time before Reddit.

Also news post bots are super common, they want to generate traffic to their news sites, as that is their source of ad revenue. Lots of ad revenue related bots making posts to generate site traffic. Some of it’s not the worst thing to have, creates something of a newsfeed and a lot of it is already present here or on Mastodon.

It becomes problematic when you have very biased news organizations and they’re allowed to use bots to upvote their news articles with impunity so all you see is biased news, it circles right back around to psyops.

Also ad revenue fraud is something that happens a lot. Ad engagement with a bot that is meant to simulate a user browsing the site and clicking on an ad so that the person hosting the ads gets paid by the person who put the ad up. Sometimes it happens on entirely fake websites with entirely fake traffic, its much easier when you dont have to fake all the traffic and just the ad engaging traffic, as it adds legitimacy to the website. I wouldnt be surprised if a good portion of Reddits revenue is from ad fraud. It would go a long way to explaining why traffic was down only 6% during blackouts, if a large portion of the 94% remaining traffic was ad engagement bots.