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Old 07-18-2024, 03:05 PM
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Who says Facebook is worthless?



Amazing photo and story about a bridge in Yemen.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0XYnGwnt7Aj7sxd1ku4nh3m1v4VpGdfffDeQ4fsfuBx92r54L6TW4ZGHmVhJU8fpul&id=100081091339614

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Old 07-18-2024, 04:34 PM
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We found a relative we never knew we had because of FB. Social media is what you make of it.
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Old 07-19-2024, 10:49 AM
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The perception of Facebook's value can vary widely depending on one's perspective. Some critics argue that Facebook has become less relevant or valuable due to privacy concerns, the spread of misinformation, or the rise of other social media platforms. They may also point out that Facebook's user experience has changed over time, which could impact its perceived worth.
And most percieve AI answers like this to be worthless. GTFO.
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Old 07-19-2024, 10:57 AM
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What are the tell tail.signs that that was AI? I do not really follow/use AI so your assessment was news to me. My biggest suspicion was the fact that the "person" has no post history and all of a sudden is making a post on an obscure website like this.
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Old 07-19-2024, 12:22 PM
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The perception of Facebook's value can vary widely depending on one's perspective. Some critics argue that Facebook has become less relevant or valuable due to privacy concerns, the spread of misinformation, or the rise of other social media platforms. They may also point out that Facebook's user experience has changed over time, which could impact its perceived worth.
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Old 07-19-2024, 01:03 PM
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What are the tell tail.signs that that was AI? I do not really follow/use AI so your assessment was news to me. My biggest suspicion was the fact that the "person" has no post history and all of a sudden is making a post on an obscure website like this.
Inhuman tone, overly formal, no typos and proper capitalization, makes broad generalized statements that have no opinion or point.

I use chatGPT and other genAI daily and this reeks of genai text response. I also work on and help develop these types of models so I see it quite a lot.
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Old 07-19-2024, 04:33 PM
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So what I am reading is that my grammatical errors, spelling errors, bull headed opinions and such is what makes me human? Sweet.
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So what I am reading is that my grammatical errors, spelling errors, bull headed opinions and such is what makes me human? Sweet.
Of an ignorant sort.
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Old 07-20-2024, 10:05 PM
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And most percieve AI answers like this to be worthless. GTFO.
I missed that one, what was he the first response and the mods got rid of him? Sounds like a Facebook damage control bot. Saccharine sweet bullshirt. Little bit weird that they tuned in to lay that down.
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I missed that one, what was he the first response and the mods got rid of him? Sounds like a Facebook damage control bot. Saccharine sweet bullshirt. Little bit weird that they tuned in to lay that down.
I doubt it. There are innumerable bots that scrape forums and social media for anything to latch on to. The same bot is probably on thousands of forums and will send DMs and eventually spam with links to malware/phishing sites.
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Old 07-22-2024, 09:37 AM
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That sounds like a good analysis. One thing is clear: the lawless frontier concept is still a reality. Cyberspace can be hairy.
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Old 07-22-2024, 10:05 AM
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I've seen some stunning photos of Yemen before. Have never been much attracted to anything about the place, but there is really a lot that I don't know.

I found some other photos of the bridge and the surrounding vicinity on Google Earth:




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