That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam
https://www.theverge.com/news/855328/viral-reddit-delivery-app-ai-scam
#HackerNews #viralreddit #scam #fooddelivery #AInews #TheVerge
@dangillmor
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the very programs best equipped to study the social and #ethical implications of #AI were being #defunded...
Well, that's bad, one negative reason (given on this poscast below) is the possibly of folks getting (weak, stupid, wrong) info on politicians during voting week.
#NilayPatel #TheVerge #Decoder #Anthropic
Thx 4 orig Dan boost
@steter
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"We also started to dive into the state of the open web, and why it feels like the web as a media platform is in decline, even though it's at an all-time high as an application platform."
@nilaypatel, 2025
I'd say that's because of predatory businesses setting out to use the application web ("Web 2.0") to kill the document web. Which is why people building the protocol-based social web are out to kill the dominance of predatory business.