You literally cannot be serious. The amount of people who commited suicide because they were being bullied on myspace ( and facebook ) is greater that the number of deaths via AI.
Like ChatGPT is literally designed to be a yes man. It's designed to be agreeable. Rarely will it argue with you. Actual human beings are willing to argue with delusions. ChatGPT won't.
Cyberbullying absolutely occurred on MySpace 100%. I'm not trying to pretend human beings haven't always been shitty to each other. MySpace in it's heyday was also a much simpler app than what we see now though. The enshittification of the internet really began when all these big sites decided they weren't just gonna be little spaces for people to connect with their friends and family, they were also gonna where you got your news and, if you get popular enough, something you could even make money off of! And now, on top of a whole bunch of algorithms designed to be addictive and show us hateful, divisive content, we now have to worry about vulnerable people confiding their personal delusions to a robot, just for said robot to be like "yeah you're totally right actually, you should kill your mom". It's a whole other beast now and it's just absurd.
Now this I can agree on - My main gripe was just pretending that other places haven't been dangerous- for a different reason, granted, but saying Myspace and Facebook etc. were Perfect Utopias ( in the social sense ) is just what ticked me off.
I agree that we no longer have places LIKE Myspace of old to just..hang out. Where we're not being advertised to. Where I don't have to see the word 'killed' replaced with 'unalived' just to appease to advertisers. It's a weird and sad thing that's happened to online spaces and if I never saw another ad for anything ever again in my life I'd die happy.
Oh I'm never defending Facebook Facebook's always been shit. It's gotten WORSE but I've never wanted to touch that site with a ten foot pole. Zuck can get fucked
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Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-10-29 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)Like I hate AI but can we just be so for real
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(Anonymous) 2025-10-29 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-10-29 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-10-29 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)I'm not saying that AI is good or okay - I'm saying lets not pretend 'we didnt hear people dying because of the environment of myspace' is true
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(Anonymous) 2025-10-30 12:15 am (UTC)(link)Re: OT Thread
(Anonymous) 2025-10-30 12:57 am (UTC)(link)Now this I can agree on - My main gripe was just pretending that other places haven't been dangerous- for a different reason, granted, but saying Myspace and Facebook etc. were Perfect Utopias ( in the social sense ) is just what ticked me off.
I agree that we no longer have places LIKE Myspace of old to just..hang out. Where we're not being advertised to. Where I don't have to see the word 'killed' replaced with 'unalived' just to appease to advertisers. It's a weird and sad thing that's happened to online spaces and if I never saw another ad for anything ever again in my life I'd die happy.
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