Showerthoughts

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AI is like a hammer (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any tool can be a hammer if you use it wrong enough.

A good hammer is designed to be a hammer and only used like a hammer.

If you have a fancy new hammer, everything looks like a nail.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am really piss off when Reddit use AI to shadowbanned my account. They never tell the reason. They just hide my interaction to outerworld, assuming that i am dumb and never found out.

As a result, all subsequent accounts i try to create are shadowbanned after 5 minutes because my phone in blacklist.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Appeals everyday but never get responded. I am sure all of this is handling by AI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even call this AI, they just have an algorithm. That's poorly tuned.

I encountered the same issue, and that's exactly why I'm here on Lemmy. Reddit and it's Shadow banning habits have to go away.

I don't like having persistent social accounts, so I make a new one for each topic, Reddit, GitHub. Purpose specific accounts to do one thing. And for the last few years, every time I create an account like that, it's immediately shadow banned. It's frustrating, because my contributions are now thrown away, and it's dishonest, because these services don't have the politeness to even tell you you're not allowed to participate.

Because of that, a federated system like Lemmy must survive. That's why we're here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't call it AI. But you can bet the C suite sure calls it AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conways game of life is ai :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

You're right! If Conway's game of life wasn't AI a year ago, it sure as hell is now!

I wonder how many rubes I can sell it to...?