Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.

Zuckerberg whispered that in his ear, didn’t he. That’s what Facebook calls their AI department.

The predominant online presence of leftist anarchists all but vanished as corporations and social media took root. For a long time the corporate world remained skeptical of the internet. It was “just a fad” that would go away eventually. They started buying everything up, monopolizing, and controlling the narratives.

I have no doubt the fediverse makes them nervous again like they haven’t been in years. There are obvious bad actors running around these parts.

Not thinking big or evil enough.

You’re a company with 1000 employees. A company like anthropic is offering to replace each employee with some sort of agent. You accept and let them train models on your processes. They launch a competitor company and put you out of business. End of story.

SEO spammers force-multiplied by LLMs. It was inevitable.

A really bad thing is that nobody seems to know what SEO/blog spammers are. Social media is reading headlines and upliking the slop.

It still never ceases to amaze me how the adtech industry is a thing with all this. It’s fakery upon fakery to the Nth degree. Yet somehow it generates money.