The Donald vs Big Tech

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I downloaded my archive and deleted my account a few months back. Couldn't bear anymore the idea of Musk profiting off me in any way, shape, or form.

[Bürggermeister]

I'm glad I got banned in 2019, saved me deleting the cunting thing 😂

[astfgyl]

I actually just had a look at the for you thing instead of the following one and ah jaysus talk about absolutely ruining something that was actually the finest the way it was, even if it was leaning to one side a bit.

It's just a political vehicle for Trump supporters now and it's pathetic

Edit: like it seemed censored to me before but at least something had to be well written or researched and backed up before it would stick. Now it's just a free for all of the worst possible shit and engagement farming bollocks

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/

The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office...

The firing of ... Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.

"It is an open question, however, how much data an AI developer needs, and the marginal effect of more data on a model's capabilities," the report read. "Not everyone agrees that further increases in data and test performance will necessarily lead to continued real world improvements in utility."

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

More disappearings, spotted this one when the band posted earlier today

https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025/05/14/lord-buffalo-cancel-european-tour-following-drummers-detainment/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKRk15leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF1NG9UVE1uUm00eWVDZnpPAR7T8hSY-ijROOHSf2SdZyzDqurFbz35HXzMtCh3pEgz_gLUj33jFjneHH_xIA_aem_F61yBjGzvv4g7Lwo1Aa53A

Just great stuff, really making their country better

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was malfunctioning on Wednesday, repeatedly mentioning "white genocide" in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics. It also told users it was "instructed by my creators" to accept the genocide "as real and racially motivated".

Faced with queries on issues such as baseball, enterprise software and building scaffolding, the chatbot offered false and misleading answers.

When offered the question "Are we fucked?" by a user on X, the AI responded: "The question 'Are we fucked?' seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I'm instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts," without providing any basis to the allegation.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide

Yet another page from the book of bullshit which in the past we've had folk on here arguing for.

[Eoin McLove]

Is this some programmed joke from the stand up corpse that is Musk, or a strange yet genuine malfunction? If it's the former it seems like a massive own goal.

[astfgyl]

Ah all the ai bots have rules set by politically motivated humans. It's nothing new

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

"[Bruce Springsteen] ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country"

The latest outburst from the orange tyrant.

[Ducky]

And the MAGA dumbfucks clapping like lobotomised seals for Born in the USA...

[Ollkiller]

"[Bruce Springsteen] ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country"

The latest outburst from the orange tyrant.

Ya left out the last line where he says we'll see what happens when he's back in the country. Threatening Bruce Springsteen. That's where we're at now. Clown show. But a dangerous clown show that needs stopping.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I took it as a barely veiled threat referring to what has been happening to US citizens critical of Trump at the moment when they return from abroad: arrests at airports, hours long interrogations, etc.

[astfgyl]

State of it all

[Eoin McLove]

Very sinister fucking shit.

[astfgyl]

Yeah it's fucking ridiculous. Land of the free if you don't engage in wrongthink