@pheonix the experience of getting a "recommendation" from a system that is wildly off the mark is so common that everyone, not just people like us who are deliberately living so as to be illegible to capital, understands this mismatch intimately. it's an illusion. the world of for profit digital advertising and surveillance is built on a colossal lie about how humanity works.
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The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.@pheonix IMO this is 100% complementary to also insisting that the methods they use to track us are laughably simplistic and broken. they claim to "know everything about us" but they're just sniffing the fumes and picking up the crumbs of each life as it's lived, understanding nothing. as surveilled as we are they still miss so much, and their data hoards are worth + capable of far less (eg predictively) than they claim, and we're in for a major economic disaster when that becomes undeniable.
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FOUND IT@lokeloski Interesting I've also observed a dynamic where if someone - most commonly programmers - sees an LLM producing output that passes initial inspection or does something that they would consider a mark of human-level competence, there's a chance that they're completely beguiled by it and conclude from that point on that LLMs are now basically operating at approximately that competence level across *all fields*. The psychodynamics of it are really alarming and, clearly, socially corrosive.