You’re right, meddling with elections in other countries has been done pretty often (see how many times the US appear in this list on wikipedia ) but sitting Presidents usually pretend to be politely looking the other way.

What’s different now is that Trump likes to put his name on everything, preferably in big golden letters, and he can’t keep his mouth shut to save his life. In the news it’s hardly ever “the USA” now; it’s “the Trunp admin” or just “Trump” doing everything.

Oh, now he’s concerned that Roblox is bad for kids? After he bought Trump?

…out of the overwindow?

Yes it did. Making up variation of the same story in order to farm upvotes used to be done by humans.

But the strategy of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks has now been industrialized with AI, because the machine can produce tons of cheaper, faster, smellier shit.

Reddit and generally socials are basically the perfect application for AI. Unreliable results are not a bug but a feature. You have thousands of humans helpfully training it for free by up or downvoting the result. And the AI companies get a machine trained to persuade large groups of people of any made-up story.

Oh, new intelligence has just emerged that your country’s government is supporting a terrorist organization that sending drugs to the US! /s

I like how there are all these terms with increasingly loose definitions, to which we attach different levels of evilness:

• algorithm - older, reliable, deterministic except when it’s “The Algorithm” in capital letters like “The Social Media Algorithm”; then it becomes evil
• machine learning - been out for decades, hasn’t destroyed the world, mostly does its job undetected. Used mainly by technical people
• machine intelligence - The machine is starting to become conscious but it is still generally helpful. “Machine intelligence” performs brain surgery, detects tumors, folds and unfolds proteins, whatever that means (but it sounds like a good thing, so we’ll give it a pass)
• artificial intelligence - machine intelligence’s evil twin. Takes credit for everything good that comes from the other ones and we tend to believe it, because it’s the only one we can actually speak to and can lie to us very convincingly. On its own it can draw pretty pictures and animate them, write code that occasionally works, pretend to love us and teach us the most effective way to slash our own wrists

One day we’ll read some of these comments and laugh at how shortsighted they were.

Of course we’ll probably have to read them on a manuscript or smeared on a wall with feces because all the world’s resources will be used by the huge datacenters that power our AI overlords

so… NATO-minus-the-US are considering creating a committee to discuss maybe retaliating AND they are helpfully announcing their intentions to Russia?

I know nothing of diplomacy, foreign politics or war but what the f#@k is this? If NATO did have the strength and consensus to do something like that, wouldn’t they just launch a cyber attack and then immediately deny that anything happened? If we AREN’T already actively doing at least some light sabotaging in Russia, how do I return my NATO loyalty card?

If someone is declaring something like that, it strikes me as a declaration of weakness for EU-internal reasons. It’s a call for the EU to start preparing to maybe start having this kind of capabilities in the next 10-15 years. And I fully hope I’m wrong and that there’s a better, 4D-chess type of strategy behind this.

EDIT: I don’t mind the downvotes, but why? I WANT to be wrong on this so I’d really like to read a comment that explains why.

I’m appalled at all these people who condone throwing flour and eggs at politicians. Everyone knows that the egg goes first, because it helps the flour stick.

“I’m not a Nazi, I just like the esthetics of someone else’s blood on my black uniform”

It’s almost like “you have to buy a new laptop to install it and help train our AI on your private documents” is somehow not convincing enough. Maybe if they also removed local accounts and forced you to have an online MS account? Nah scratch that, it would be stupid

Etymology, slogans, rhymes or catchy acronyms give our brains the illusion of hearing something that makes sense. Repeating them a million times drills them in your neural pathways. Plus they are easy to scream loud enough to drown any attempt at intelligent conversation.

That’s right-hand populist communication in a nutshell.

Not unique, but still how safe is to create a new powerful army when the forces against democracy could just democratically take control of it?

AI goes haywire and starts actually giving reliable information

but can YOU do it before I finish my coffee?

Grok likes to finish on his face and some went in his eyes

What is drawing top comedians to Saudi, a place where you get killed for saying or writing things the ruling family doesn’t like?

I see a trend there but I can’t quite… Wait, could it be loads of money?

I track the location of hundreds maybe thousands of phones every day for minutes at the time. I see people using them while I commute. Where can I collect my fee from the US government for my services?

no. no, what she was trying to say is that we are 100% shooting Russian jets IF they are on the table. Unless we’re having dinner, in which case we’ll invite them at the table because hospitality is sacred if you are armed and not an immigrant.

To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.

It’s kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).