Sure but the metrics that companies produce after running an ad campaign to see if it was effective do not depend on those pay per click metrics. They will generally look at what the total sales or total amount of engagement with their content was pre and post the marketing campaign. If the number goes up they call it a success and will pay for another ad campaign. I guess the real question is are ad payouts for sites hosting them still generally based on pay per click or other engagement analytics that run after the campaigns are finished. That I am unsure of

While I agree with you I did just want to point out one thing.

This:

it’s mathematically impossible to fake.

Is not entirely true persay, every hashing function does have collisions that can occur. But the likely hood that someone baked an exploit in that kept the application functioning while adding their backdoor all the while somehow creating a hash collision with the original fingerprint is practically zero and honestly if someone did pull that off, fucking hats off because that has to be some sort of math and coding wizard beyond most. I should also point out that the file size would most likely/have to be different so there should be other methods of detecting the compromised build regardless.

Sorry I know that was very pedantic of me but I did want to call that out because its technically possible but the actual likely hood has to be so miniscule its almost irrelevant along with the fact that other tells would surely exist.

So high and mighty of you but we did not have a viable 3rd party candidate that had any sort of reach that they could have won the election.

We do not have the same system of governance in the US as most of europe does. Like I’m m glad you get more options with ranked choice voting but your plan would have done the same thing here as not voting and left you supporting genocide no matter how you want to try and spin it in your head.

At least had we gotten a democrat president, challenges from the courts could of helped put pressure and had we at least had someone who is not threatening death to those who oppose them we could have worked from a local and state level government to apply pressures to the federal gov to stop supporting Isreal and their genocide. Now those alternatives are nearly impossible as none of the politicians here want to be the ones who start a civil war and get our civilians slaughtered by the US military generating more body counts than what we have already seen in Gaza.

Im getting tired of this high and mighty attitude from Europeans like you when at the same time we all have seen significant rises in fascism and genocide support throughout European nations. I didnt see any of the European countries arresting Netanyahu when he flew through their airspace with an arrest warrant out over the actions of gaza? So europe’s lack of action is just as damning as any country in the west even if you have your own propaganda playing appeasement with stern wording in talks on your news and then a clear lack of follow through when it comes time to actually act.

So no you dont get to wipe your hands and shift blame from the fact its all of us who haven’t been doing enough. The problem is everyone is getting so tribal no one will work together. You put out opinions and state why aren’t your groups doing more and when pressed about what you are doing that gives you any right to critique the actions others are doing you wipe your hands use your false cop out of well thats your sides fault not mine. So either put your fucking money where your mouth is or fuck right off until you learn how to be beneficial and supportive.

Stop doing the uber wealthy’s biding of pitting all possible allies against each other with your little nationalist mentality as if prior to trump europe didnt support all this shit by spending and investing in US stocks and technologies funding the exact shit you see today. We are all complicit in one way or another its fucking impossible not to be with such an interconnected global economy and world, so you need to come to grips with that and start helping instead of acting like you’re above everyone else.

You need to get people on board first, these small protests show people they arent alone in what they are feeling and that there are people in their area who would be there to help and support for larger events. It allows others to organize and share contact information and grow the movement. Considering almost all social media which has the saturation needed to even allow this to be done online are coopted and owned by the opposition, we need these slow burn style events to make people acclimated to doing this for one and also to help grow numbers to a point bigger more successful action can be effective. While media may misrepresent these as general strikes a more apt description is these a like recruitment drives.

Yeah because they know you like pancakes and can serve you ads to start that train of thought so when you are served the pancake ad you feel like it ‘got you’ instead of the real fact that you were manipulated into thinking about pancakes so the pancake ad has more possibility of getting engagement from you. This is why you should have ad block on everything you interact with.

Eh it just adds more accessibility to games, it doesnt bother me if someone likes specific parts of a game and not the full package. You may enjoy the challenge aspects but dont find other areas like exploration to be as enticing or for someone else maybe its the opposite. Having the ability to pick and choose what parts of the game you play and allow other parts to essentially be a cutscene doesnt seem like a bad idea. It just means more players can enjoy something. For example I liked eldenring, but I found the boss fights to be a bit to much for me and ended up never finishing the game. I dont have a ton of time to play so having to memorize fighting patterns etc for a drawn out battle just pushed me away from the game. I want to be able to create the character pick my weapons abilities, explore then just do some minor battles that arent going to be me needing to repeat a fighting sequence for 10-20mins. If I had the option to essentially turn the boss fights into cutscenes driven by my weapon choices and skills that I crafted with my character that would be pretty cool and give me more enjoyment possibly enticing me back to the game. While i enjoy puzzles in some games I know some people just want the action, so imagine having something like legend of Zelda and being able to skip the puzzles but take control for fights and exploration. Having the ability to customize the experience of a game just means you can appeal to a wider audience and that is not a bad thing.

Which just also shows why this is a very anti consumer move. Its trying to artifically push people to by new hardware because there hasn’t been significant enough changes to really warrant it. This then means more people who might have swapped off of windows to keep their existing hardware might end up having to upgrade then stick with their familiar windows platform so that the ai bubble can continue. Its completely fucked up

And how many motherboards have the same amount of m.2 slots as they do sata slots? And what generation? So now I need new ram which is inflated to high hell, a new motherboard and cpu to increase storage on my gaming rig? Its not like games are small these days I like to keep most games i have installed and that takes multiple terabytes of storage that is cheaper to do via sata ssds… this is clearly anti consumer and done purely to push people to newer systems in the hope people stay with windows instead of swapping to linux. Its being done to keep the ai bubble going…

What do you mean to the point of putting it in real space in your hand? Like you can just hallucinate it at will and view it with your eyes open as if its in the room with you?!

We are already in 1984, if anything AI allows others to make more human music because they dont need to find bands, fund studio time just to get a song to match the lyrics they wrote.

Not really they love having the human front to the ghost writers they employ today to make you feel like you connect to the artist so when they push brand deals and marketing you buy the products they made deals with. This if anything frees those ghost writers to actually make their own music without the shackles of a corporation breathing down their neck.

This is already what people who make good AI music do today, they can then also feed in the lyrics they wrote to have the AI sing/rap. Just because some people will make uninspired music from it doesnt mean thats all it can do. Its just another tool that helps people express themselves. It literally takes effort to make AI sound good, its just in a different form than the effort needed to sing or play an instrument and allows those who might not have the ability to sing or play an outlet to still create music others enjoy and find inspiration in.

Ah yes the story written by ghost writers so the marketable front “artist” for the label can sell brand deals and ads when that “artist” goes on tour and does interviews. People using AI can still write their own lyrics and make music based on the same inspirations you say makes real music. If anything this frees the ghost writers who might not have a great voice or ability to play instruments well but has phenomenon lyricism can plan a good musical set to make their own albums and be free from the oppressive labels.

If the author does not want to spend time learning and doing, then I don’t want to spend time checking whatever they asked an AI to do.

Not everyone has the luxury to spend time learning those skill sets. Should the single parent who had a dream to make art who is getting crushed by capitalism, works 3 jobs to make ends meet and literally doesnt have time to learn there passion without starving not also deserve to be able to express themselves? What do you want only the privileged rich people who have time to dedicate large portions of their life without impact on their finances to be the only ones putting out art? How does someone like Taylor swift who’s whole career came about because her parents could spend so much money on getting her training and paying for studio time in some of the most expensive studios more deserving of getting to make art because of circumstances most people dont have the opportunity to participate in?

Lower barrier of entry for profit-seeking bullshitters

Oh no poor people might be able to make money off of art instead of only massive corporations that effectively already killed the human spirit in art already. Oh no someone who may have gone to school for art so they can express themselves may no longer be able to get a job at an ad company where their love for art gets extinguished as they have to constantly make soulless logos for mega corps based on advise from advertising psychologist who define what will tingle peoples brain more to make them want to consume more.

The problem your scared about already happens but is dressed up as human expression today by pr departments because people do it. If anything AI art would counter that because now more people will be producing things for the sole reason of expressing themselves instead of needing to take a soul crushing job eroding the expression of their craft for a corporation to make up for the years of debt they incurred by going to school to follow their passion only to find out the field they went into is a farce.

Oh, there’s also the problem of all the deepfakes that people WILL believe, whatever the intent was: revenge porn, political manipulation, trolling.

People believe anything already, people believed random hearsay in the past. The only counter for any type of manipulation like this whether being based in deep fakes or just someone spewing nonsense on a pod cast is critical thinking skills. AI doesnt change that one bit, if someone doesnt want to think critically about something they wont, they don’t need AI today to practice cognitive dissonance and blocking AI wont stop that behavior only focusing on education and critical thinking skills will.

Do you think AI music or art is just people putting random words into a prompt to get an output? AI music still allows people to feed their own lyrics into the output so there can still be plenty of layers to the lyrics, people refine the beats and rhythms to match what they are feeling so emotion still comes through. People who make good AI art use it as a base and mash it up, refine prompts and find what matches what they feel, they are just using a different brush than people in the past. It also allows more people to participate in art than we have had in the past, aside from the environmental impacts of AI which are a problem, use of AI in art is just another tool for expression. Its good which means even the slop ends uo looking and sounding better than the non ai slop counterparts but that doesnt detract from the fact people put emotion and thought into making good art even if they incorporate AI into their workflow to do so.

The machines arent making art in a vacuum they take human input and thus are still human directed art. Do you realize how many “artists” use ghost writers? All ai does is allow those ghost writers to now produce their music without needing some PR tool from a big label to pretend to write the music and sell it. All AI art really does is break the vail that any of the art for the past few decades was actually art and not just pr and marketing from big corporations. Now instead of people getting mad at the industries that caused all that enshitification they are taking it out on people who are using tools to express themselves in ways they may not have had raw the musical or artistic skills to do so in the past. Now that doesnt solve the energy consumption issues that arise with AI which is a big issue but use of AI itself is not whats eroding the human spirit in art, that was done by corporations turning art into another commodity to exploit. With the way capitalism is that erosion of human spirit has and will continue to happen with or without AI.

The ones who say to worry about your country are the ones here who saw this for decades as well and are trying to tell you we see the same shit starting all over the place over seas. If you act like you are above it, the same shit will happen to you all. Alot of us unfortunately didnt fight hard enough when we needed to due to thinking most people here weren’t as stupid as they are and we are now pretty much fucked. Don’t repeat our mistake thinking you have less idiots in your countries, the rot starts beneath the surface first just because you think you’ve cleaned the surface doesnt mean the infestation isnt festering below. Don’t be like us, be 100 times more proactive.

I think they are trying to say trickle down can work at lower levels of class, i.e. giving money to the middle class will filter a little bit down to the lower classes. But I still doubt that in our current world, like maybe IF there were more small business and IF those businesses would pay their employees more given more profit coming then maybe but one there is a lack of small businesses for common commodities in a lot of regions, and two those small business owners tend to act like corpos now and my assumption is they would hoard that increased profit especially with how shit the economy has gotten. With a lack of stability in todays economy even the most well intentioned small business owners operating costs could swing way too high at a whim. So even for them saving extra profit as a rainy day fund to keep their business alive in those economic down swings would be crucial to staying afloat. Which again just kinda negates the premise of trickle down working at any level even more.

All of this just further points out the only solution is trickle up as giving a poor person money will always circulate upwards. With that, now they can afford more of life’s necessities and even some luxuries once they can become comfortable. All of which will filter into profits for businesses and spur the economy, create more jobs, etc. Its ridiculous that such common sense seems devoid from policy, like all these companies could do so much better without all this greed. I bet in the long run the savings from not needing to fund bunkers, private protection, bullet proof vehicles, enhanced security, etc. in addition to the economic boom of people being able to actually afford to buy things if the uber wealthy just didnt try to act like parasites would pale in comparison to what they get by from a 8-10% break on these taxes in the short term before the economy slowly grinds to a halt and any profit they got starts slowly dissipating more and more as no one can afford to buy anything.

No country is publicizing what checks they do for a high level security clearance check unless they want to give bad actors and easy way to beat their checks. What country is this and whats the exact law you are referencing? If you can provide me direct evidence for that I’ll eat my words but I think you are misunderstanding something if im honest.

I mean maybe if they have an investigation and they want to use that information as evidence sure that would be illegal to use but for background checks any of that information is fair game if they are able to get it. Like if your terms of service specifically say they wont give any information out for any reason, maybe you can sue them if you can prove they got the information with your name attached directly instead of it being sold after being anonymized in aggregate then another company/data broker aggregating other data on you to infer who’s data belongs to who with device footprints then selling that to the government as a service which i mean good luck. But most likely the terms you sign say they will hand over data for criminal investigations or matters of national security to government entities which they can state background checks for high level clearance positions is a matter of national security.