“Completely new”

Okay, then don’t train it on anything at all and let’s see how it turns out.

“Solving the crisis … requires the private and non-profit sectors to join forces with the public authorities at all levels of government.”

So as long as everybody coordinates toward the same common goal, we should be okay.

…Welp, we had a good run.

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.

Car thieves: “You know, I just don’t feel right supporting a company like Tesla by stealing from people who purchased their products.”

Which costs extra, of course

Nothing wrong with short articles. It’s better than sifting through paragraphs of “Electric cars are an innovative technology that take many of the featues of…” just to get to the relevant content.

Better than spreading one contiguous body of content across five tweets too, IMO.

I don’t see the problem with being concise.

Lol beat me to it.

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Wow-- My thoughts exactly. I assumed after that, nobody would go anywhere near them with their disaster-waiting-to-happen affairs. But then I remember how I used to assume that nobody would be careless enough to make their password “12345678” and it makes more sense.

Add in the fact that the horny debuff gives people like a -30 to IQ, and it really starts to come into focus.

Flummoxed!

I mean do you think Fortnite has anywhere near the same level of ability to disseminate information or surveil people as TikTok does?

And actually it makes a material difference that ByteDance is based in Beijing, as opposed to just having Chinese investors. Those social platforms, movie studios, etc., being headquartered in the US is exactly what makes it different. Can Chinese firms apply financial pressure to compel them to act against the interests of US citizens? Yes, of course, and they do.

But that’s categorically different than being legally obligated to comply with the CCP, which ByteDance is.

TikTok is a massively powerful tool of influence and intelligence, in the hands of an adversary that is well understood to proactively meddle with democratic elections.

Yes, obviously the CCP will unabashedly pursue other interference vectors. That should be viewed as more reason to curtail TikTok, not less.

Big yike 😬 Anyone find a decent way around THAT yet? How do they even know that you’re on a VPN? Is it like… they maintain a list of known VPN exit node IPs?

Does old.reddit.com still work to get around it?

Damn that’s wholesome.

FWIW, WeChat and 微信 are different apps. With a non-Chinese phone number and Google Play Store download, you’ll be using the international one (WeChat) instead of the Chinese one (微信). There are still privacy concerns, but it’ll be less invasive than what you’d have with the version that people in China are buying their groceries with and stuff.

I’m sorry I don’t have advice for how to actually protect yourself, though… I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread to see what I can learn.

I admire your optimism. I don’t share it, but I admire it.

But they tried so hard…

Yeah, I’m wondering about how they characterize “bot activity.” It seems like “any traffic not proximally related to a user’s synchronous activity” is a little too broad.

I’m not sure if fediverse syncing is bot activity. Or my laptop checking for software updates while I’m sleeping. Or my autopay transactions for utility bills.

Worked for me just now. What did it say when you did it?