I was looking for a new TV last month, the salesman said it was “sacrilege” when I told him I had no intention of connecting the TV to the internet or using its online functions since I will have a media PC connected to it. I was just interested in the quality of the screen.

For it to happen in the Fediverse AI would have to be training on the Fediverse.

That’s what this post is about. Using reddit to plant comments that AI trains on, and subsequently getting AI to spit out your answer to questions it’s asked.

As such this can happen anywhere where AI is being trained. The issue is with how AI is training, not with how websites it trains on are being operated.

It’s a grift, but it’s extra steps. It’s not about affecting the experience on reddit, but for AI users. They use reddit to plant answers, which AI then trains on and regurgitates later.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better. However AI might not account for this and could still spit out the planted information.

Not quite. They’re making posts on reddit that few if any humans will ever read, targeting rising threads and planting comments before AI reads them. Then when someone asks AI a related question, it regurgitates the planted comment rather than established facts.

So it’s not SEO on humans searching reddit, more like SEO in the AI domain.

Why can’t people timestamp their links anymore smh youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?t=33s

TLDR Chinese hackers got into their hosting provider and hijacked the update process for notepad++ over the period June-December 2025. Apparently this was more of a targeted attack, they don’t seem to imply that everyone got redirected to the hacked update server, but the recommendation is that everyone download and install the latest version manually - which includes a more secure update process, and also they’ve changed hosting providers.

I wonder if we’ll witness the image get more and more jpeg’ed with each fix.

“The current policing model was built for a different century. We will create a new National Police Service – dubbed ‘the British FBI’ - deploying world class talent and state of the art technology to track down and catch dangerous criminals,” said UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

The government themselves are referring to it that way.

Ideally that’s what it will be, but I’m wary of how often they themselves refer to it as “the British FBI”.

Yes because the FBI have never done anything controversial.