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The crimes of Meta

When Facebook's faceless bots accused me of contravening community standards by trying to give away some old furniture on Marketplace and abruptly threw me off the platform with no proper explanation, I took it personally. I mean, here is one of the world's most sleazy, corrupt and dishonest corporations - Meta - telling me that I contravened community standards. But I take solace in knowing that I am just one of many, many thousands of former Facebook users to have been unceremoniously ejected from the platform by its deeply unintelligent AI systems. From the start of…

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AI is a pain in the neck

Bots and large language models are clogging the web and crowding out humans. AI is consuming lakes of fresh water and gigawatts of electricity. It is chewing up hundreds of billions of dollars with no sign of profit in sight. Tell me again why this is a good thing. Exhibit #1: I had realised that the Swedish word "flicka" means "girl" and I thought of the old book and TV show, My Friend Flicka (it's about a horse) and figured that must have been the origin of the name. The people I was with seemed a…

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