RedstoneValley

Yeah, that was my thought too. What a dumb way to censor by search input instead of censoring the output.

It probably went like this at Meta:

Product Manager: Hey we just got this word filter list from HQ to be implemented ASAP.

Devs: Sure thing boss.

German news magazine Der Spiegel wrote they had talked to a Meta representative and they said "This is definitely an error and we will fix it fast"

My personal take: An incident like this illustrates how vulnerable we are to being censored and silenced when using social media and communication channels owned by billionaires. It's time not only to leave those platforms but to educate your friends and family why this is absolutely necessary. No more excuses.

Original: Update, 13.30 Uhr: Auf SPIEGEL-Anfrage hat sich Meta inzwischen kurz und knapp zu dem Phänomen geäußert. »Dies ist eindeutig ein Fehler, den wir schnell beheben werden«, so eine Sprecherin des Konzerns.

Just tested in in the EU with a friend's Instagram account. It's real.

I completely forgot about this one. These clowns also think they are very clever in using thinly veiled Nazi symbolism in their publications. Like using the number 18 in their recent "Abschiebeticket" campaign (1 = A, 8 = H in the alphabet and is common code among themselves for Adolf Hitler) And when asked about that they smugly pretend being absolutely innocent.

If you need some context, Musk is actively trying to influence German elections by advertising for the far right party afd. While doing something similar in the UK with the right wing Reform party, and calling for a neo nazi to be released from prison.

So there's that. It doesn't even matter if this was a nazi salute or not, because it was clear that he is a fascist before this incident.

What's the purpose of this? You have to supply a correct answer to make the ad go away?

I can only think of one example where some simple programming skills could benefit ordinary users: Home Automation. All the more difficult stuff is already neatly packaged into ready to use modules, and the user doesn't have to worry about the ZigBee protocol or APIs or network ports to turn on a light bulb. Here some knowledge about conditionals, variables, loops can easily be used to program useful automations.

My take: It's either not going to happen at all (which is what I would place my bets on tbh) or it's going to be something that only megacorps like Google or Microsoft can offer due to the enormous requirements of such a system, which would make most of those AI companies redundant, not just their devs.

They are still asking the wrong questions and blissfully ignoring the elephant in the room. If you round up thousands of people there will be logistical problems:

a) you can only deport people to countries which are willing to take them.

b) you'll have to detain them until they can be deported

Which means concentration camps. Ask Americans if they support concentration camps in their country. Because that is what is going to happen.

They overdid it on the behavioural module though. All that insecure manbaby talk is uncanny valley cringe. Hope that will be fixed in another update.

You wouldn't even have to reach as far as malware. All software has bugs. To think that AI will produce perfect bugfree code because "it's a computer" is laughable. So inevitably there will be a need to debug the code, across servers, filesystems, databases, APIs, you name it. In tens if not hundreds of thousands of lines of code, which might even be compiled. Surprise, an LLM can't do that.

As a developer I always enjoy asking these clowns why anybody should buy their products when AI will soon allow consumers to build these apps themselves, which is just a logical progression if you don't need coders to create software.

I know of course that this isn't going to happen anytime soon. It's wishful thinking from their part and it shows a complete lack of understanding both what LLMs can and cannot do and what it takes to design and implement anything bigger than a batch script.

Edit: I also can't help but feel personally offended whenever some corporate drone gloats about replacing developers. It didn't happen with low-code, it didn't happen with no-code and it won't happen with AI. But it hurts every time.