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#31

Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread

Last post by Valmy - December 10, 2025, 08:28:15 PM

So I love Youtube. I have been on it since 2007 or so. I love all the creative and interesting things people make on it but I am starting to get worried. AI slop is really taking over. It is going to fucking ruin it.

And it is frustrating because there are really interesting and creative things people are doing on Youtube with AI but it is just being drowned out by low effort slop. And the slop is only getting more low effort and harder to distinguish from actual videos.

It hasn't entirely happened yet but you can see it coming. A slow motion trainwreck.

Sort of like how bots made the comment sections worthless awhile back. Now the robots are coming for the content creators.

#32

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by Valmy - December 10, 2025, 08:05:17 PM

How do you handle VPNs?  Do you let teens use them to bypass the filters, or do you ban adults from using VPNs as well?

I don't know, which is why I'll be watching with interest.

That said, "motivated teens with some degree of tech acumen finding ways to circumvent a ban" is going to be a smaller subset of teens than "any teen with a mobile device getting social pressure to sign on to social media and having a zero friction path".

Having a little friction in their path is going to come at an enormous price. That is my concern.

#33

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by Valmy - December 10, 2025, 08:04:22 PM

I think it is a bad idea for kids to have social media accounts and be on social media.

However...this is unenforceable and to the extent it is enforceable it will have disastrous consequences. We are seeing something similar with the State of Texas' war on internet porn. They are implementing a bunch of catastrophically bad and privacy destroying measures and have yet to actually keep anybody from internet porn.

#34

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - December 10, 2025, 08:03:30 PM

Well, the " wink-wink neo Nazis" and Hamas broadly have the same goals.

One of them is now confined to handful of square miles and regularly pummeled by the IDF.

The other is running the most powerful nation on earth and the one in which I live. 

If only they didn't have support of hundreds of millions of people across the globe...

That is paranoid delusion. They barely have the support of anybody.

How do they get all that money then?  Who keeps bringing them weapons?

#35

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Valmy - December 10, 2025, 08:02:01 PM

Well, the " wink-wink neo Nazis" and Hamas broadly have the same goals.

One of them is now confined to handful of square miles and regularly pummeled by the IDF.

The other is running the most powerful nation on earth and the one in which I live. 

If only they didn't have support of hundreds of millions of people across the globe...

That is paranoid delusion. They barely have the support of anybody.

#36

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - December 10, 2025, 07:56:18 PM

Is that the position of the Greens or Your Party?  "We support you but..."

#37

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by HVC - December 10, 2025, 07:25:48 PM

How do you handle VPNs?  Do you let teens use them to bypass the filters, or do you ban adults from using VPNs as well?

I don't know, which is why I'll be watching with interest.

That said, "motivated teens with some degree of tech acumen finding ways to circumvent a ban" is going to be a smaller subset of teens than "any teen with a mobile device getting social pressure to sign on to social media and having a zero friction path".

I think you underestimate the will of teens and how quickly information disseminates.

That being said social media is a disease and I have no better answers, so have at it.

#38

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by Jacob - December 10, 2025, 07:09:15 PM

How do you handle VPNs?  Do you let teens use them to bypass the filters, or do you ban adults from using VPNs as well?

I don't know, which is why I'll be watching with interest.

That said, "motivated teens with some degree of tech acumen finding ways to circumvent a ban" is going to be a smaller subset of teens than "any teen with a mobile device getting social pressure to sign on to social media and having a zero friction path".

#39

Off the Record / Re: Australia begins enforcing...

Last post by DGuller - December 10, 2025, 06:55:18 PM

How do you handle VPNs?  Do you let teens use them to bypass the filters, or do you ban adults from using VPNs as well?

#40

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - December 10, 2025, 05:49:13 PM

Correct in terms of stuff like citizen of country X can access the social system of country X, work in country X, buy property in country X, etc...
In terms of what they're doing and constraining fundamental rights of non citizens.... No. That's something that is meant to be universal.

Yes but clearly a revision of practical applications of that is needed in the modern world. The current rules were clearly made with European conflicts in mind. Not when technology and global crisis intertwine to turn those old processes and interpretations into effective vehicles for immigration.