Somehow I didn’t get pinged for this?

Anyway proof of work scales horrendously, and spammers will always beat out legitimate users of that even holds. I think Tor is a different situation, where the financial incentives are aligned differently.

But this is not my area of expertise.

I’m talking text only, and there are some fundamental limitations in the way current and near future LLMs handle certain questions. They don’t “see” characters in inputs, they see words which get tokenized to their own internal vocabulary, hence any questions along the lines of “How many Ms are in Lemmy” is challenging even for advanced, fine tuned models. It’s honestly way better than image captchas.

They can also be tripped up if you simulate a repetition loop. They will either give a incorrect answer to try and continue the loop, or if their sampling is overturned, give incorrect answers avoiding instances where the loop is the correct answer.

There are simple tests to out LLMs, mostly things that will trip up the tokenizers or sampling algorithms (with character counting being the most famous example). I know people hate captchas, but it’s a small price to pay.

Also, while no one really wants to hear this, locally hosted “automod” LLMs could help seek out spam too. Or maybe even a Kobold Hoard type “swarm.”

I mean, there’s a real issue.

Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.

Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?

I would.

The US government’s solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.

Decep is right.

Not from America. America is full of hatred towards minorities.

You’re basically implying the bad outweighs the good to the point that it won’t give them any ideas.

The bad may be very amplified now, but I think the TikTok crowd in particular and US history skews towards “majority good”

I wonder if those other “spammy” adblockers do precisely this. Insert affiliate links.

Doesn’t Brave already swap some ads for their own?

That’s so corporate. Everyone’s big idea boils down to being a service instead of a seller (because that’s theoretically more profitable), but it sucks.

He’ll probably show up at Ubisoft or EA, lol.

Or maybe even back at Microsoft to lead their handheld launch.

If the alternative is nothing, that’s fine.

And if you need Facebook for work, fine.

But there is no reason to endure being on hellish social media. We lived without it for thousands of years, and you are (IMO) deluding yourself if you think participating brings even an ounce of change. The biggest impact you can make is not being on there and robbing Facebook (or whoever) of the engagement boost you give it.

Off topic, but I am jealous of that handle.

The “piracy database” in question is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

Screw scholarly journals and giant publishers for squeezing cash out of already-thin academics while being shitty gatekeepers, letting complete trash through while blocking others (among other things). They’re greedy, stagnant, exploitive middlemen.

Doesn’t make what Zuck\Facebook did OK, but I have zero sympathy for the monopolistic “victims” here, especially since it’s going to open weight models one can use for free.