It will eventually be revealed that rsilvergun is a Chinese LLM trained entirely on the complete works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kim Il-Sung, and Mao.

Oh snap how can I possibly respond to such a witty reprisal?!

By Jove but got it! I'm rubber and you're glue what bounces off me sticks to you!

Enforce antitrust law. It does mean though you're going to have to change how you vote. You're going to have to change what you prioritize. Maybe not you personally but the majority of people reading this comment I would wager

I had some business reasons to have an account and participate in a few niche subs. The subs were niche enough to mostly be enthusiastic friendly people, but it didn't take long to notice the patterns of the same ideas making the rounds.

Then one of my posts was removed for reasons I don't understand (and didn't try). Whatever the mod was thinking, I just gave up, deleted my historical posts and removed my account. Not worth the effort.

Up to that point, old.reddit.com was working (with or without signing in, mobile or desktop) despite the threat to shut that down. I wouldn't use the new interface unless you paid me a decent wage to do so.

I've quit Reddit before - it's very toxic overall - but now it's not even worth it for business. I doubt they'll ever lure me back again.

Observing that some people aren't responsible enough to work without someone breathing down their neck is a wildly different claim than saying the work itself couldn't be done remotely.

I don't think it's that simple. Sure, if you're talking about physical possibilities for single instances. But those aren't anything other than a bound because you have to have people to do the tasks. Once you've got low to mid skill people in a dull, dead end job, you have a problem. For certain kinds of job, I reckon it becomes more or less impossible to motivate the majority of people who will actually do the job.

At that point what does it matter if someone could in theory do it remotely?

And the answer as usual is AI slop.

This has been going on for ages and used for spam and cybercrime and they didn't care.

The reason it's a problem now is AI companies are buying access to your TV so they can use your clean IP address to go scraping data from websites that are blocking them.

Don't get me wrong it's still a good thing that these are getting banned but they have been around apparently for quite some time and none of the TV manufacturers gave a shit. Probably because the problem wasn't big enough until the AI swap bots got involved.

This is exactly why I keep my television tuned 24/7 to Fox News Network. There is absolutely nothing you can do to make a TV dumber than that!

I don't have to log in to view Reddit content. Never have. In fact, I was just perusing a subreddit two minutes ago without issue.

As per my other comment, its 2AM in Seoul and the heat index is 103F.

I just checked, and it's 2:17AM in Seoul. It's 86F with 85% humidity! Heat index is currently at 103F, at fucking 2AM.

AI slop posts farming karma so they can do scams and political post floods during an election season mean all of the discussion on any of the hobbyist forums is basically garbage. You get the same low effort obvious bot posts pretty much everywhere. Besides that there's the usual outrage porn all over the place designed to get you all angry so you will engage.

All that stuff was always a bit of a problem but the AI chat bots have made it so much worse.

"It's 108 degrees outside"

"Yeah but you know, it's a dry heat"

That cannot be done unless we change our attitude about what we put into our atmosphere and how we respect the air we breathe. That requires us to meet head-on the serious threat of global warming. -Bill Clinton, 1993

Let's speak plainly and accurately, a particular group of politicians say the scientists are wrong and they say that for no other reason than to gain a craven political advantage by being oppositional to that group of politicians who believe the scientists.

Tell that to the people who die in Death Valley when they are on a hike.

So what's your explanation for this exponential increase in random book purchases without questioning price?