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Technology @lemmy.world

YouTube shorts disproportionately promotes alt-right content according to this experiment

TLDR if you don't wanna watch the whole thing: Benaminute (the Youtuber here) creates a fresh YouTube account and watches all recommended shorts without skipping. They repeat this 5 times, where they change their location to a random city in the US.

Below is the number of shorts after which alt-right content was recommended. Left wing/liberal content was never recommended first.

  1. Houston: 88 shorts
  2. Chicago: 98 shorts
  3. Atlanta: 109 shorts
  4. NYC: 247 shorts
  5. San Fransisco: never (Benaminute stopped after 250 shorts)

There however, was a certain pattern to this. First, non-political shorts were recommended. After that, AI Jesus shorts started to be recommended (with either AI Jesus talking to you, or an AI narrator narrating verses from the Bible). After this, non-political shorts by alt-right personalities (Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, etc.) started to be recommended. Finally, explicitly alt-right shorts started to be recommended.

What I personally found both d

  • Okay, so here's the deal. This show should've had 5 seasons, not 4. Everything up till the middle point of season 4 is AMAZING. After that, they have really rushed it n made it quite illogical.

    The ending is underwhelming. That being said, I would highly recommend u to watch it. The story's just really really good. Certain twists and payoffs are veeeery fascinating. Highly recommended!

  • Ehh not really.

    Economically: The pro China ones can sometimes be pro market-ish. However, I've seen some of them talk about how Xi Jinping is making China have a more and more planned economy day by day. As for the pro USSR n North Korea ones, I've seen them range from hard anti-market to having teeny tiny sympathy for a very small, heavily state controlled market.

    Socially: I've seen many trans ppl on hexbear. Aaaand I've also seen ppl claim transgenderism itself to being bourgeoisie manufactured fake science to distract the population from the real issue- class warfare. HOWEVER, I have seen none of them defending religious beliefs or ideals.

    Therefore, the only thing similar that they share with right wingers, is that their political structures would over time evolve into stateful, classful, authoritarian systems.

    Oh, and yeah- they both really love strongmen...

  • I have an OLED screen though. It gets really really dim, plus the black background is as dark as it can get. But again, I guess it's that additional luxury.

    E readers are definitely not worse than my phone. They most definitely are better (even if the difference isn't that significant). Therefore, if money was not a concern, I would get one too ig!

  • Yeah, I get the short lines issue. It's especially a problem for me for books with figures in them (like textbooks). Too much of scrolling necessary there.

    For normal mostly text based stuff, it's alright for me. But again, I do have a large-ish phone. So ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

  • I never got the point of eReaders tbh. I mean sure, they look exactly like paper n stuff, but what's wrong with ur phone?

    I read on my phone with a black background and white-gray text. It's really comfortable, and I don't need to buy and charge extra devices. Really curious to know why you guys don't do something like this.

  • Problem: Higher childhood depression rates linked to social media usage, social media caused disruption in education (like usage in schools), privacy violation of minors, etc.

    An enforceable, common sense solution: Very strict privacy protection laws, that would end up protecting everybody, including minors. Better, kid friendly urban infrastructure like dedicated bike paths protected from car traffic, better pedestrian areas, parks and so on. Kids will get outside their house if there is a kid friendly outside. A greener, more human friendly outside where you can socialize with other humans would always be preferred over doom scrolling online. For the disruption in education issue, it is very education system dependent.

    What solution these people came up with: Make it illegal for individuals under the age of 16 to create social media accounts. How do they enforce this? No idea. Does this solve any of the above problems? No. Is this performative? Yes.

    Speaking from personal experience, social media was one of the most liberating tools for me as a kid. I lived in a shitty, conservative country and was gay. Social media told me that I wasn't disgusting. I was always more of a lurker than a poster, so I thankfully didn't really experience being contacted by groomers and so on. However, many of my friends who posted their images and stuff almost always got pedos in their DMs, so that's a very real issue.

    I could ask my silly little questions related to astrophysics on Reddit and get really good answers. Noone around me irl was ever interested/able to talk about stuff like this. I could explore different political ideologies, get into related servers on Discord and learn more about this. None of this was possible without social media.

    Banning social media outright is such a boomer move lol. Doing so isn't going to solve any real problems associated with childhood social media usage. It's just going to give the jackass parents complaining about this a false sense of security, when the kids still end up suffering.

  • Alberta @lemmy.ca

    Green Line discussions on hold despite urgent calls for provincial, federal talks

    Summary by AI:

    • Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek expresses uncertainty about the future of the Green Line LRT project due to disagreements and the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
    • The federal government has committed $1.5 billion to the project, but clarification is needed regarding their support for the revised provincial alignment.
    • The revised alignment, proposed by the province in December, is 76% longer than the previous plan and features no tunneling through downtown Calgary.
    • The city and province have different cost estimates for the project, with the city stating the revised alignment would cost $7.5 billion, $1.3 billion more than the provincial report suggests.
    • A meeting between the city and province to discuss the new plan has not been held, and the city is requesting clarification on several matters before considering a vote on the provincial plan.
    Calgary @lemmy.ca

    Green Line discussions on hold despite urgent calls for provincial, federal talks

    Summary by AI:

    • Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek expresses uncertainty about the future of the Green Line LRT project due to disagreements and the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
    • The federal government has committed $1.5 billion to the project, but clarification is needed regarding their support for the revised provincial alignment.
    • The revised alignment, proposed by the province in December, is 76% longer than the previous plan and features no tunneling through downtown Calgary.
    • The city and province have different cost estimates for the project, with the city stating the revised alignment would cost $7.5 billion, $1.3 billion more than the provincial report suggests.
    • A meeting between the city and province to discuss the new plan has not been held, and the city is requesting clarification on several matters before considering a vote on the provincial plan.
    Futurology @lemmy.ml

    I'm sure Lemmy will downvote this to hell, but o3 really is a big big deal. This benchmark was considered to be incredibly difficult to solve. It was highly unexpected that any AI system would meet the performance criteria at least for a few years.

    The flip side however, is that o3 is veeeeery expensive to run. It also is not open source. That's why, it hasn't won the Arc prize- which has performance, efficiency and open source requirements. o3 has met the performance requirements for now, which is still very very impressive.

    I would recommend giving the article a read to understand and appreciate what this is actually about.

    Also, just a little note - We should fight to seize the means of production. We should not fight the means of production itself.

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Nature is beautiful

    TWAT TWAT

    Furry @pawb.social

    Radu (left) and Emile (right)

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Cats bourgeoisie rule

    Furry @pawb.social

    Blake x Daemon

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    Cheeto likes his big man and wants to spend more time with him 🐆🥰 They make a good couple. After all, they often share single braincell together ~

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    You are the toilet to my skibidi

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Why rule

    Furry @pawb.social

    Hmmmm???

    pics @lemmy.world

    Hong Kong

    Furry @pawb.social

    Stockings rule

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Stockings rule

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Talking tree

    Technology @lemmy.world

    How QR codes work

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Sexy shark rule

    Original post

    Original creator

    This is fanart of a webcomic called “Castle Swimmer”. It’s really really good! Here’s a link.

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Siren and Kappa rule

    Original post

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    This is fanart of a webcomic called "Castle Swimmer". It's really really good! Here's a link.

    Calgary @lemmy.ca

    An argument for elevated rail

    The UCP jerks seem to be making the underground tunnel for the green line impossible. A possible new alignment could be elevated rail through downtown. After I watched this video, I think it wouldn't be that bad after all?

    Technology @lemmy.world

    Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit"

    connect.mozilla.org Try Orbit by Mozilla: a new AI productivity tool

    Hi folks, We’ve got something exciting to share first with our community! Introducing our beta version of Orbit by Mozilla, now available as a Firefox add-on. This is a new AI tool to help summarize emails, docs, articles, and even video transcripts. Designed to boost productivity, Orbit provides co...

    Try Orbit by Mozilla: a new AI productivity tool

    Orbit is an LLM addon/extension for Firefox that runs on the Mistral 7B model. It can summarize a given webpage, YouTube videos and so on. You can ask it questions about stuff that's on the page. It is very privacy friendly and does not require any account to sign up.

    I personally tried it, and found it to be incredibly useful! I think this is going to be one of my long term addons along with uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes and so on. I would highly recommend checking this out!