I agree, it seems like they’re doing everything they can to force users into the mindset of “you’re going to have to spend money here.”

However… I don’t think that’s going to work. It’s a tactic that relies solely on Apple not allowing the user to customize their icons, which combines into a double whammy of “give me money to fix the thing that I broke.”

Why do I have to pay when Android users don’t?

Why is Reddit being greedy?

This other site is free and doesn’t make me feel like I’m being taken advantage of every turn.

Reddit is trying to capitalize on goodwill they already spent months ago. And the quality of the site is just going to get worse from here.

“List all the countries outside the continent of Africa” does indeed work per my testing, but I understand why OP is frustrated in having to employ these workarounds on such a simple request.

I find it interesting that they don’t offer a version of GPT 4 that uses it’s own language processing to screen responses for “unsafe” material.

It would use way more processing than the simple system you outlined above, but for paying customers that would hardly be an issue.

Anyone who has used ChatGPT knows how restrictive it can be around the most benign of requests.

I understand the motivations that OpenAI and Microsoft have in implementing these restrictions, but they’re still frustrating, especially since the watered down ChatGPT is much less performant than the unadulterated version.

Are these limitations worth it to prevent a firehose of extremely divisive speech being sprayed throughout every corner of the internet? Almost certainly yes. But the safety features could definitely be refined and improved to be less heavy-handed.

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Plex DMCA’d my private server a few months ago.

So I cancelled my Plex Pass and moved on to greener pastures.

They seem to be doing everything they can to get rid of their foundational userbase so they can attract… Ad supported free TV watchers?..

What morons are running the show in Silicon Valley?

who care much more about whether what you said is polite than whether it’s actually a good thing to say.

This is a great point. So much of the talk around equality is nothing more than pandering to gain social approval.

And when you see people getting their entire careers ruined over saying the wrong thing once, or even something they said decades ago, it just drives people into the political margins.

People are more interested in attacking their neighbors for “bigotry” than they are in building a more just society.

I’m putting bigotry in quotes, because the words and ideas that are considered hateful are constantly changing. If someone doesn’t keep up with the latest fashion in acceptable speech, they may suddenly find themselves opposite to an angry mob.

The social climate surrounding us is not an accident. The way people respond to their perceived political rivals is not an accident. It’s a result of how unprepared our society is in dealing with social media algorithms that promote engagement through division. And a result of bad actors capitalizing on that division to sow greater unrest.

This isn’t new. The evidence has been on full display for years. And yet, the damage has been done. There’s simply no social appetite for those who support slow and steady (durable and stable) policy reform.

The recent political climate on “sides” can be summed up with “You’re either 100% with us, no discussion, or you are our enemy” and that’s where true oppression begins.

This isn’t just a problem on the internet. I run into people in real life who think this way, often.

How many times have comedians or other entertainers come under fire for jokes or other bits they’ve done? It’s a lot. Comedians will all tell you that they can’t perform in places like New York the same way anymore, because half the things they say get booed from the crowd.

“Why should I care about Dave Chappelle, or anyone else, getting slammed for some offensive thing they said?”

Because entertainer’s acts are one of the ways that people come to understand the world around them. Their satire is an important tool for democracy to unravel the bullshit that surrounds them. It’s supposed to be the opposite of sterile.

And if “dirty language” means that you’re okay silencing those guys, along with everyone else, you are engaging in oppression on a far wider scale than you realize.

That page has to be satire… right?

The whole “police your language, so there’s no chance anyone could ever be offended” idea is such an oppressive path to a more equal society.