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Rod Hilton

Paramount kept their staff on hand to handle stressful conditions, surely kept lots of folks on-call to ensure the Superbowl could be streamed on their service, had record viewership numbers and then immediately laid off 800 of the people who helped give them that success the next day so that the executive leadership could pocket all the profits without sharing it with the labor force who built it.

Seriously. Eat the rich.

deadline.com/2024/02/paramount

Paramount kept their staff on hand to handle stressful conditions, surely kept lots of folks on-call to ensure the Superbowl could be streamed on their service, had record viewership numbers and then immediately laid off 800 of the people who helped give them that success the next day so that the executive leadership could pocket all the profits without sharing it with the labor force who built it.

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DELETED

@rodhilton "the full power of paramount" well, the full power YESTERDAY, you mean. Now you're a bit below that power, I'd say. And when you fuck over your own people like that, the customers take note.

Rod Hilton

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

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Sir Nedwood - Sydney 🇦🇺

@rodhilton "But is actually spelled with a "K" sound". I thought we used letters to spell rather then sounds. oh well my bad.

iByteABit

@rodhilton Unrestrained use of ChatGPT is already ruining the quality of the internet, it probably won't take too long until there's a flood of AI generated shit articles and misinformation covering up real content

MrClon

@rodhilton maybe logic there is that Kenya is actually «Republic of Kenya» (or «Jamhuri ya Kenya»)

Rod Hilton

I can't even wrap my head around this. Days ago the discussion on /r/piracy was about if it was worth continuing to protest, knowing that reddit likely hated the community and would actually prefer if a piracy-focused community left.

And now they are forcing other mods into control to force it back open.

A piracy subreddit. Devoted entirely to discussing illegal activity. Forced by the company to stay open, because they are that desperate for the traffic.

reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1

I can't even wrap my head around this. Days ago the discussion on /r/piracy was about if it was worth continuing to protest, knowing that reddit likely hated the community and would actually prefer if a piracy-focused community left.

And now they are forcing other mods into control to force it back open.

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Harksaw

@rodhilton I intend to see to it that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop.

fool

@rodhilton Wow.

How many other subs are they forcing?

Rod Hilton

Loving the visual symbolism here. In case it's not obvious, yes, every one of these articles in the 'Programming' topic on Medium were very clearly written by ChatGPT, and my only recourse was to unsubscribe entirely.

Ben ♾️

@rodhilton exactly. this is the point i think everyone’s been missing. so far all the narratives have been “look how much more content a single person can produce!” but in my mind it’s just spitting out garbage faster. just more to tune out IMO.

Benjamin Johns

@rodhilton I'd always thought that the "dry as saltine, one-sentence-per-paragraph, milquetoast first person, meanders around for 300 words and then repeats the topic sentence in lieu of an argument" Medium article was an unfortunate side effect of the way their promotion algorithm works.

It turns out it's a house style that people desperately wanted to emulate once technology unleashed their creative potential!

Rod Hilton

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

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Polygon Pusher📻

@rodhilton You know the only move left is to re-brand like meta. I present to you Elon's new Twatter™ social network, where everyone is a twat.

🏳️‍🌈Proverbial Monkeys🏳️‍⚧️

@rodhilton When he bought Spacex he was contractually barred from speaking to anyone below the board because they’d seen what he’d done at Tesla when he bought it. And Teslas just burst into flames like, whenever.

⚳ rapid unscheduled assembly ⚳

@rodhilton he talked about electric cars. I know quite a lot about electric things in general, and when people said he was a genius I figured they must have meant in business stuff, so okay, maybe he was a business genius. I don't know much about business. the shit he was saying about electric stuff was pretty stupid, but hey, if he can finance it then whatever.

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