A thread for updates on the various ways the internet is destroying everything and the undying hellsites of social media. Let's all laugh at the abyss.
Leon said by 2024 Twitter would be a banking and dating platform. Still a few months left I suppose.
Leon said by 2024 Twitter would be a banking and dating platform. Still a few months left I suppose.
That was a typo. He meant to say "wanking and baiting".
Zuck has no idea what actual humans want or need or will be doing.
Also what is a "digital cognitohazard"? I'm an older person and that term is honestly pretty scary.
He’s a joke. He thinks he's the second coming of Steve Jobs. He’s been coasting on his “success” of a slightly less shitty MySpace by copying every single idea that comes down the pike.
If AR glasses ever ship, they'll be so janky for at least a decade that being first to market won’t matter. He thinks he’s going to be first to ship the next iPhone, but all he'll do is be the first to ship the first cell phone - that needed a damn briefcase to work.
He’s a joke. He thinks he's the second coming of Steve Jobs.
I call him the luckiest one-trick pony that ever existed. He got hyper lucky once and has spent the last 2 decades trying to prove that it was because he was a genius and not just the right asshole at the right time (Some similarity to Jobs there.)
But the whole point of his getting hyper lucky once was to help he and his friends become even bigger assholes than they were before.
Zuck has no idea what actual humans want or need or will be doing.
Also what is a "digital cognitohazard"? I'm an older person and that term is honestly pretty scary. :)
A cognitohazard is something that poses a danger just by perceiving it. The term comes from the SCP community, but the concept is much older. It's pretty common in Lovecraftian horror, like how just reading the Necronomicon will drive people insane, or how just knowing about the existence of some of the Old Ones makes you vulnerable to them.
There’s a pretty good SCP novel around this idea called There Is No Antimemetics Division, about a branch of the SCP that battles sentient concepts and entities that prey upon human perception and memory.
Zuck has no idea what actual humans want or need or will be doing.
I would extend that to the majority of the present day tech industry. Crypto? Nope. Metaverse? Nope. A.I.? The jury is still out.
Also didn't Google already try the glasses thing?
Also didn't Google already try the glasses thing?
And Apple with the Vision Pro.
I had forgotten that Austria actually has a beer party.
It's not you, the timeline changed again. Been happening a lot recently. Gotta hope our future selves win the future war decisively enough that there won't be a future war and the timeline can calm down.
I've heard good things about the Ray Ban AR glasses.
There’s a pretty good SCP novel around this idea called There Is No Antimemetics Division, about a branch of the SCP that battles sentient concepts and entities that prey upon human perception and memory.
That sounds amazing. Thank you.
Also note, the OG story here is BLIT by David Langford, from 1988. Influenced a lot of later SF, and still packs a punch.
All this puts me in mind of Charles Stross's Laundry fiction, minus the tongue-in-cheek Office vibe.
SCREW THIS HOW WILL I NO WHOS A REAL PSYCHIC
Could just as easily go into the AI thread.
In a Google document, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio explained how they linked a pair of Meta Ray Bans 2 to an invasive face search engine called PimEyes to help identify strangers by cross-searching their information on various people-search databases. They then used a large language model (LLM) to rapidly combine all that data, making it possible to dox someone in a glance or surface information to scam someone in seconds—or other nefarious uses, such as "some dude could just find some girl’s home address on the train and just follow them home,” Nguyen told 404 Media.This is all possible thanks to recent progress with LLMs, the students said.
"This synergy between LLMs and reverse face search allows for fully automatic and comprehensive data extraction that was previously not possible with traditional methods alone," their Google document said.
Where previously someone could spend substantial time conducting their own search of public databases to find information based on someone's image alone, their dystopian smart glasses do that job in a few seconds, their demo video said.
Pungent Sobriquets is the name of my upcoming book of poetry.
“Particularly when it’s a negative, toxic conversation, we don’t even engage,” says a TV marketing executive. “Like with toxic people, you try to not give it too much oxygen.”
Smart. That approach has served me well on social media. Block/ignore and move on.
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.
The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology, and the pair are not releasing their code, AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the creators, told 404 Media. But the experiment, tested in some cases on unsuspecting people in the real world according to a demo video, still shows the razor thin line between a world in which people can move around with relative anonymity, to one where your identity and personal information can be pulled up in an instant by strangers.
Nguyen and co-creator Caine Ardayfio call the project I-XRAY. It uses a pair of Meta’s commercially available Ray Ban smart glasses, and allows a user to “just go from face to name,” Nguyen said.
Anon.
Pungent Sobriquets is the name of my upcoming book of poetry.
“Particularly when it’s a negative, toxic conversation, we don’t even engage,” says a TV marketing executive. “Like with toxic people, you try to not give it too much oxygen.”Smart. That approach has served me well on social media. Block/ignore and move on.
Part of this, I think, is just the direct result of twitter still dominating (by volume) the public square. In a post-twitter world, more of these conversations would be happening in places where blocking was meaningful, and the problem would be less pronounced. I mean the toxic fans could stay vocal on gab or r/racism or something, but the fact that it happens in dusty corners would itself deligitimize it.
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