Let's say a search term like "apartment for sale in Dallas", I think 15 years ago one of the highest grossing search keywords was something like "asbestos cancer lawyer".

And Meta has incredible amounts of behavioral data but is usually not that close to the thing I want to do right in this moment, they closed that gap.

Open AI has a very good psychological profile, very little current intent and very little attention, but this might change.

Everything else is optimizing the targetting data in some kind of behavioral way to get better intent data or to reach the right users.

I have no idea where something like Chatgpt stands on that axis, it has actually very little attention (in hours per day) for most people and I am not sure that it has enough intent signals.

What we are monitoring are deceptive patterns on a text or transcript level. Deceptive patterns can be things like information inconsistency in one post, context shifts in one post that are used to reframe something, or video patterns like fake statistics or fake headlines that are not consistent with the main content.

All of these patterns are actual science backed psychological manipulation patterns and they are consistently used in the most viral posts we detect. My perspective after one year working on this is that the average media literacy is even lower than we think and that we build an evolutionary system with the social media platforms that is optimized to increase the performance of digital manipulation actors.

It's the most disturbing thing I have ever worked on, there is much more out there than moste people realize and a lot of it uses deceptive dark patterns.

If somebody is interested in talking more about this or is working on similar things, always welcome!

So you force a a migrant crisis and the spread information about the failings of liberal democracy... it's KGB basic training.

We (all tech people everywhere me included) argued for a lot of time for free speech on the internet, but the result currently is that we built a system that is free speech for Russian and Chinese bots and actors. In Europe we are under daily attack from Russian accounts that spread massive amounts of desinformation, deep fakes, just emotional appeals with the goal of destroying liberal democracy. The US government is actively trying to support them by fighting against any kind of European rules and spreading their part of desinformation.

This is not about normal politics, Europe is under siege.

I am unsure if this would be taxed differently in any other country.

“Halide needs access to your camera to capture photos and videos with advanced controls for pro-level photography.”

For user facing text I tend to always try a LLM version, just because the results are so middle of the road, which is exactly what I want in a case like this.

There's a very relevant question about the viability of energy intensive industries in Germany, but even that is dependent on energy source. A lot of industries are switching to electric heating that will also lead to lower per capita energy use.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-intensity?tab=char...