points by smag 1 day ago | 0 comments
The revenge effects of technologies are well known: email was great! It was faster and much cheaper than mailing letters. But it gave rise to spam and many types of fraud. The mobile phone is awesome. A powerful computer in your pocket. But now people, including teenagers, spend 12-16 hours each day staring into their mobile phones, doomscrolling towards Babylon. In 2006 people memorized dozens of phone numbers. Today? Maybe you remember 1-2 numbers.
What will be the revenge effects of LLMs and diffusion models? I sense that the revenge effects from these technologies will be much more substantial.
[–] officeplant 1 day ago
[–] DangitBobby 1 day ago
The only spam that still manages to consistently burden me is delivered to my real mailbox by USPS!
[–] xboxnolifes 23 hours ago
Well, all of the big jumps of technology that revolve around communication at least. While im sure some pedant could find an nth degree link, I dont think the cotton gin or steam engine led to increased spam in any direct way.
[–] officeplant 17 hours ago
>I dont think the cotton gin or steam engine led to increased spam in any direct way.
Non-sense, trains can easily haul spam and transport fraudsters around!
[–] Razengan 1 day ago
Clay Tablets: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea-nāṣir
[–] drdaeman 1 day ago
I don’t think the quality of that copper had anything to do with the tablets. Tablets only hold a record that an issue happened, and are otherwise uninvolved. It would be different if Ea-Nasir advertised his copper with clay tablets, but that’s not the story we know.
[–] Razengan 1 day ago
Maybe Nanni was the real scammer all along, blackmailing an honest merchant with slander
[–] kulahan 1 day ago
This would be a hilarious finding. It’s so believable and human, too
[–] Razengan 1 day ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9BfpGbrKo
I swear there'll be a movie about this some day
It's kinda funny that you can put that after all of the big jumps in technology:
Email: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Cellphones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Texting: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Social Media: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Online Gaming: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
Smart phones: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.
And now AI: It gave rise to spam and many types of fraud.