[ExI] Just say no to Google

[spike at rainier66.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, 19 November, 2025 6:50 PM
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Cc: spike at rainier66.com
Subject: Re: [ExI] Just say no to Google

I signed off of Titter/X almost a year ago.  It used to be where Anders Sandberg posted.

So I don't know how much medical advice they are pushing.  I have been on Facebook recently, and if you mention or respond to anything medical, they aggressively fill your feed with medical ads. including some with long, deep fake spells from "Elon Musk" hawking pills to fix your liver or heart in three days.

Some people are going to take the ads seriously and do harm to themselves or someone else.  It surprises me that Meta allows this, and almost as much that Musk does not go after them.

Keith



I can see why these platforms do not go after anyone posting there: FaceBook and TwitterX are not certifying the IP that users post in those media.  The companies don't make enough revenue in ad sales to pay humans to do that.  They make enough to hire humans to do ad sales, not content filtering.  This is what Jack did wrong with Twitter and how it was losing 25 million bucks a month.  Content filtering can be done by AI.  The criteria can be made public.  The whole process should be transparent as a glass shower door.  Musk saved TwitterX.

Agentic AI has a lot of billboards around here.  They appear to claim most jobs can be done by AI.  We will see:

https://www.google.com/search?q=agentic+ai+billboards+stop+hiring+humans&sca_esv=ce0ce1db3a943257&udm=2&biw=1020&bih=1135&ei=r6UeaYIz6a66vw-xiKe4DA&ved=0ahUKEwjCxoad_v-QAxVpl-4BHTHECccQ4dUDCBI&uact=5&oq=agentic+ai+billboards+stop+hiring+humans&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyIoYWdlbnRpYyBhaSBiaWxsYm9hcmRzIHN0b3AgaGlyaW5nIGh1bWFuc0jpHFC6BljRG3ABeACQAQCYAVKgAZcKqgECMTm4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgCgAgCYAwCIBgGSBwCgB-QBsgcAuAcAwgcAyAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-img

Musk was the first I heard of who replaced most of his human staff with software.  Any business using humans to do jobs a computer can do is likely to be steamrolled by a competitor who has far fewer employees and lower expenses.

spike