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The enshitification continues

This morning I was watching a video on YouTube and I was presented with a mid-roll ad that was clearly a blatant scam.

I ran the ad by Google's Gemini AI and it immediately flagged the ad as being deceptive and offering impossible things.

Now I find this interesting because it kind of proves that YouTube/Google simply doesn't vet video ads using its own AI before allowing them to be shown to a vulnerable audience.

If Google's AI could immediately spot a scam when I ran the video past it, clearly no attempt is being made to perform similar checks before unleashing those ads on YouTube users.

Why do you think that is?

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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