I always thought that “zombie internet” was a more appropriate term than “dead internet.”

New lows every day in the US

Yes, of course. But the evidence must also be presented to the court in an unaltered form, which seems increasingly unlikely these days in the US, where even the Attorney General is no longer doing things as they should be done.

Why are there videos of this in the first place? Surely not to prove that guards acted wrongly, because in this case, strangely enough, the evidence always seems to disappear.

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

What else can I say? Every thinking person is aware of the problem, but you’re not going to achieve anything with your propaganda slogans – on the contrary, you’re scaring off people who basically agree with you.

Oh, don’t get me wrong: he is certainly a racist monster but I don’t think he puts anything else above his own interests.

I think that pretty much applies to all members of the Israeli government. Take Netanyahu, for example, who not only has had an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court for ages, but is also on trial for massive corruption, which is why he is interested in maintaining the state of war for as long as possible, even though it is not a war, of course, but genocide. But Netanyahu doesn’t care; he’s just trying to delay his trial—which is typical of this regime: they are criminals who will literally walk over dead bodies.

That may be true for the US, but we’re talking about Europe here, where many countries have a welfare state, workers’ rights exist, and education is handled very differently. That’s precisely why I find it even more incomprehensible how people can be so incredibly stupid and vote for Nazis who are not only inhuman racists, but also want to create US-style conditions in Europe.

And any halfway decent human being would say that this minister is a monster who belongs behind bars for the rest of its miserable life.

It seems that democracy is beyond saving in the age of social media and all the misinformation that circulates there. I mean, you can’t be that incredibly stupid if you live even halfway in reality.

You only have to look at the US to see very clearly how corrupt the goddamn neo-Nazis are and that the promises they make to their ignorant voters are nothing but lies. It’s more than obvious that the US fascists are pursuing policies that are by no means in the interests of the people, but rather the work of a criminal syndicate, which is what they truly are. There is no difference between these barbarians and those in Europe – they are all agents of the power hungry billionaires and do nothing but pursue their interests, which is of course at the expense of the citizens.

Anyone who still doesn’t understand this is living entirely in the imaginary parallel world that the Nazis have built together with their financial backers.

Since this obviously affects so many people and these people cannot be convinced with rational arguments, it is probably hopeless.

Sonic 3: Ice Cap Zone Act 1

You said that philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes—that is definitely wrong, but if you want to believe it, please do.

You need to be more specific. I’m not going to waste my time refuting your statement because I can’t even begin to imagine how you came up with that.

But (classic) Google provides links that can be traced. LLMs do not do this consistently - and they are frequently hallucinating. Don’t you want to contribute anything to my core statement?

Theoretically, yes, just as poor content is still content - but that only applies until someone takes the time to engage with it.

I’m not saying that the internet isn’t a good thing. Everything you say is possible, desirable, and happens every day. But it comes at a price because people don’t know how to use it. Misinformation and hate are rampant because people see the internet (rightly so, given their informational independence - if they have any) as their primary source of information. However, things like quality journalism are no longer possible here because the business model no longer works at all. This means that there is no one left that does investigative journalism and that people have to inform themselves independently - which most just can’t and won’t do. The situation in the US is the logical result of that.

And as for Batman: I don’t even want to get started on Palantir and their Gotham project…

I don’t think you have any idea how bad it’s going to get in the future - Grok is already giving us a glimpse, but LLMs haven’t replaced search engines like Google yet (has AI already) - but it’s definitely heading in that direction. Then the answers will be given even more strongly and with far less transparency by those who control the LLMs - and they are all multi-billion companies, because only they can afford the necessary computing power.

Oh, companies will definitely provide content - much more than you could ever read, see, or hear (they already do provide more than you could ever comprehend using AI). And companies have done this in the past.

The difference, however, will be that it will be a sequence of existing content. The reason: AI companies claim that their LLMs would behave like humans - and that’s halfway understandable if you believe this narrative: Imagine a musician - it would be unrealistic to think that they have no influences - every musician will say that they have been inspired by Jimmy Hendrix, Kraftwerk or some other influential artist in their work. And yes, that’s what the narratives about neural networks are aiming for: machines learn just like humans: they take some input (training data) and make something extraordinary of it.

The thing is, though, most of it is just empty marketing. AI or rather LLMs are in fact not capable of producing new things the way humans can - not now, and as things stand, probably never. Nevertheless, the economy is adapting as if it were.

For everyone who actually creates content - musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, graphic designers, painters, even civil servants and many others - this means that in the future, they will no longer be able to make a living from their profession. Their valuable content can’t compete with AI because it is too expensive.

For employers, this may be absolute fulfillment - for everyone else, it means the end of the information age, because AI is not capable of producing anything new. And when there is noone able to make a living from their intellectual work, nothing of any worth new will be produced - just variants of thing that were already there.