Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated 'Users' No One Asked For
Meta says it will integrate AI-generated characters into Facebook and Instagram with their own user accounts.
Read this to get a sense of how to can avoid the new AI-generated social media interactions coming our way. I wouldn't want any of us to waste precious time and energy arguing with fake people on line. #AI #technology #socialmedia #chatbots #deepfakes
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
02.01.2025 18:42
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I've seen two articles this weekend about how we need to be nice to chatbots to avoid becoming assholes to humans
I think folks brains are getting completely cooked by conversational interfaces
11.01.2026 15:06
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I think I'll just avoid using these chatbots any time I can.
16.02.2026 17:10
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Chatbots vs Humans: Customer Preference Insights
Explore what customers really think about chatbots versus human support. Find the right balance for your engagement strategy.
Imao, chatbot companies fosters aggressive customers.
Vaguely related 6-month old study:
<<45% of all people prefer to communicate with businesses through chat.. However..only 0,5% of all people would prefer to chat with a bot rather than a real human being.>>
www.weply.chat/blog/do-you-...
06.03.2026 18:42
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Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
06.03.2026 16:19
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In case Visa/Mastercard one day was 'turned off', how to pay?
* By such European systems (eg Vipps) which rely on phone number eg as bar code of the recipient
* Account-to-account
* Cash
* Or through any of the forthcoming European cards that fit into properly adjusted pay machines and ATM of today
06.03.2026 16:37
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Seeing people in the news industry say that articles should be AI-generated is absolutely bonkers and the antithesis of why so many of us became journalists in the first placeβbecause we aspired to the art of reporting AND writing. I will never release AI slop under my byline.
04.03.2026 14:12
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I never use AI to write my law review articles. I earn every rejection on my own π
05.03.2026 22:55
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Now that AI isn't copyrightable, it's now legally okay to steal someone's AI art, not change it and call it your own. But AI bros are clever and have avoided this problem by never having produced anything worth stealing.
04.03.2026 19:21
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I wish ai never existed
05.03.2026 06:57
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Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard
A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard
MWAHAHAHAHA!
US BANKS ARE FUCKED! PROGRESS ON THE NEW SYSTEM IS RAMPING UP MORE RAPIDLY THAN EXPECTED.
Wero - Digital payment wallet share.google/By9M5IEC76jb...
Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard share.google/bJAX8v2l2E6w...
27.02.2026 19:06
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Wero-App β
28.02.2026 00:44
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With all respect, I think, Euronews, that when you talk about liberating from attachment to US systems, it may be as well that you at the same time don't advertise US systems like this so-called "Artificial Intelligence" which is neither intelligent nor very useful.
06.03.2026 16:40
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Europe needs to roll up its sleeves, or it risks losing its last bit of independence to US-controlled payment schemes. As the first EU instant payment system, WERO aims to become Europeβs ticket to payment autonomy. #EuXl
β‘οΈ https://l.euronews.com/37B9
03.03.2026 09:32
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UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
Here's a side effect of this Administration that probably wasn't in your periphery.
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears | Financial sector | The Guardian share.google/eCJxtqhxUe3p...
23.02.2026 23:12
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Europe DITCHES Visa + Mastercard - Launches Alternative to Replace US Payment Control
YouTube video by House of El
Europe Dumps Visa / Mastercard - Launches Alternative To Replace US Payment Control
#Wero #LOL
youtube.com/watch?v=dCrH...
25.02.2026 14:48
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In case Visa/Mastercard one day was 'turned off', how to pay?
* By such European systems (eg Vipps) which rely on phone number eg as bar code of the recipient
* Account-to-account
* Cash
* Or through any of the forthcoming European cards that fit into properly adjusted pay machines and ATM of today
06.03.2026 16:37
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Blue Owl Sets Off New Private Credit Fears
The biggest private capital firm behind most of the AI hyperscale deals such as Meta's Hyperion and xAI's Colossus, is seemingly in financial distress as it shops its debt holdings at a discount. It's not looking good.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
05.03.2026 16:05
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Between this and the US courts maintaining that "AI" work is not itself copyrightable, good news for actual humans.
06.03.2026 10:37
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anyone who posts on this site "Sorry bluesky but ai good actually" is 1000000% not posting in good faith and i will not be engaging lol
03.03.2026 17:22
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Apple geoblocking downloads of ByteDance-owned apps in the US - 9to5Mac
Apple is blocking US users from downloading or updating several ByteDance-owned apps, even when they have a valid Chinese App Store account.
For once, I agree with Apple:
All ByteDance is _infested_ with AI; everything that was free and good about ByteDance is now cluttered & has privacy issues:
<<Apple is geo-blocking US..users from downloading..ByteDance [incl] TikTok.., Capcut, Lemon8, Lark, and Hypic.
9to5mac.com/2026/03/05/a...
06.03.2026 13:09
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Microsoft's Discord Server in Chaos Amid AI Backlash
Microsoft's Discord server faces chaos as users protest against AI integration, leading to a temporary lockdown and content scrubbing.
This is the funniest #AI news I heard all week. I almost wish I was on the @microsoft.com @discord.com just to witness it. www.ibtimes.com/microsoft-di.... #AIHype Shout out to @i-dont-like-ai.bsky.social for calling it to my attention. Long live #microslop!
04.03.2026 15:08
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28.02.2026 19:57
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πͺπΊ The digital euro, an alternative to American giants Visa and Mastercard in online payments reached a new milestone on Tuesday Feb 10. Meeting at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs adopted two amendments to the European Central Bank's annual report endorsing the initiative.
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17.02.2026 14:07
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Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard
A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard
"ECB President Christine Lagarde told Irish radio that Europe needs its own digital payment system 'urgently', warning that virtually all European card and mobile payments currently run through non-European infrastructure controlled by Visa, Mastercard, PayPal or Alipay."
17.02.2026 08:29
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UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
The European are so concerned about the stability of the regulatory framework and Trump that they're pulling out of Mastercard and VISA.
$22B loss to the American economy.
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears www.theguardian.com/business/202...
17.02.2026 19:26
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