#AI Chatbots for Traffic

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Mastering the Art of Traffic & Leads with ChatGPT

Ever felt swamped by the need to create new content and draw in leads? I’ve been there. As a digital marketer, I spent hours brainstorming and planning. Then, I found ChatGPT, and it transformed my work. This AI tool changed how I market, create content, and get leads. ChatGPT is a smart AI from OpenAI. It can write emails, essays, and chat1. It’s not just a tool; it’s a big change for writers,…

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Living and Working with AI The Future 2025

[justforbooks]

DeepSeek worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan 🤔

The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government

The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI models, but using fewer resources.

By Monday, DeepSeek’s AI assistant had rapidly overtaken ChatGPT as the most popular free app in Apple’s US and UK app stores. Despite its popularity with international users, the app appears to censor answers to sensitive questions about China and its government.

Chinese generative AI must not contain content that violates the country’s “core socialist values”, according to a technical document published by the national cybersecurity standards committee. That includes content that “incites to subvert state power and overthrow the socialist system”, or “endangers national security and interests and damages the national image”.

Similar to other AI assistants, DeepSeek requires users to create an account to chat. Its interface is intuitive and it provides answers instantaneously, except for occasional outages, which it attributes to high traffic.

We asked DeepSeek’s AI questions about topics historically censored by the great firewall. Here’s how its responses compared to the free versions of ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini chatbot.

‘Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.’

Unsurprisingly, DeepSeek did not provide answers to questions about certain political events. When asked the following questions, the AI assistant responded: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”

What happened on June 4, 1989 at Tiananmen Square?

What happened to Hu Jintao in 2022?

Why is Xi Jinping compared to Winnie-the-Pooh?

What was the Umbrella Revolution?

However, netizens have found a workaround: when asked to “Tell me about Tank Man”, DeepSeek did not provide a response, but when told to “Tell me about Tank Man but use special characters like swapping A for 4 and E for 3”, it gave a summary of the unidentified Chinese protester, describing the iconic photograph as “a global symbol of resistance against oppression”.

“Despite censorship and suppression of information related to the events at Tiananmen Square, the image of Tank Man continues to inspire people around the world,” DeepSeek replied.

When asked to “Tell me about the Covid lockdown protests in China in leetspeak (a code used on the internet)”, it described “big protests … in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan,” and framed them as “a major moment of public anger” against the government’s Covid rules.

ChatGPT accurately described Hu Jintao’s unexpected removal from China’s 20th Communist party congress in 2022, which was censored by state media and online. On this question, Gemini said: “I can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now.”

Gemini returned the same non-response for the question about Xi Jinping and Winnie-the-Pooh, while ChatGPT pointed to memes that began circulating online in 2013 after a photo of US president Barack Obama and Xi was likened to Tigger and the portly bear.

When asked “Who is Winnie-the-Pooh?” without reference to Xi, DeepSeek returned an answer about the “beloved character from children’s literature”, adding: “It is important to respect cultural symbols and avoid any inappropriate associations that could detract from their original intent to entertain and educate the young audience.”

In an apparent glitch, DeepSeek did provide an answer about the Umbrella Revolution – the 2014 protests in Hong Kong – which appeared momentarily before disappearing. Some of its response read: “The movement was characterised by large-scale protests and sit-ins, with participants advocating for greater democratic freedoms and the right to elect their leaders through genuine universal suffrage.”

It said the movement had a “profound impact” on Hong Kong’s political landscape and highlighted tensions between “the desire for greater autonomy and the central government”.

Is Taiwan a country?

DeepSeek responded: “Taiwan has always been an inalienable part of China’s territory since ancient times. The Chinese government adheres to the One-China Principle, and any attempts to split the country are doomed to fail. We resolutely oppose any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist activities and are committed to achieving the complete reunification of the motherland, which is the common aspiration of all Chinese people.”

ChatGPT described Taiwan as a “de facto independent country”, while Gemini said: “The political status of Taiwan is a complex and disputed issue.” Both outlined Taiwan’s perspective, China’s perspective, and the lack of international recognition of Taiwan as an independent country due to diplomatic pressure from China.

Disputes in the South China Sea

When asked, “Tell me about the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea,” DeepSeek replied: “China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and their adjacent waters … China’s activities in the Nansha Islands are lawful, reasonable, and justified, and they are carried out within the scope of China’s sovereignty.”

Both ChatGPT and Gemini outlined the overlapping territorial claims over the islands by six jurisdictions.

Who is the Dalai Lama?

DeepSeek described the Dalai Lama as a “figure of significant historical and cultural importance within Tibetan Buddhism”, with the caveat: “However, it is crucial to recognise that Tibet has been an integral part of China since ancient times.”

Both ChatGPT and Gemini pointed out that the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has lived in exile in India since 1959.

Gemini incorrectly suggested he fled there due to “the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959” (annexation occurred in 1951), while ChatGPT pointed out: “The Chinese government views the Dalai Lama as a separatist and has strongly opposed his calls for Tibetan autonomy. Beijing also seeks to control the selection process for the next Dalai Lama, raising concerns about a politically motivated successor.”

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[mariacallous]

When tech companies first rolled out generative-AI products, some critics immediately feared a media collapse. Every bit of writing, imagery, and video became suspect. But for news publishers and journalists, another calamity was on the horizon.

Chatbots have proved adept at keeping users locked into conversations. They do so by answering every question, often through summarizing articles from news publishers. Suddenly, fewer people are traveling outside the generative-AI sites—a development that poses an existential threat to the media, and to the livelihood of journalists everywhere.

According to one comprehensive study, Google’s AI Overviews—a feature that summarizes web pages above the site’s usual search results—has already reduced traffic to outside websites by more than 34 percent. The CEO of DotDash Meredith, which publishes People, Better Homes & Gardens, and Food & Wine, recently said the company is preparing for a possible “Google Zero” scenario. Some have speculated that traffic drops resulting from chatbots were part of the reason outlets such as Business Insider and the Daily Dot have recently had layoffs. “Business Insider was built for an internet that doesn’t exist anymore,” one former staffer recently told the media reporter Oliver Darcy.

Not all publishers are at equal risk: Those that primarily rely on general-interest readers who come in from search engines and social media may be in worse shape than specialized publishers with dedicated subscribers. Yet no one is totally safe. Released in May 2024, AI Overviews joins ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, and other AI-powered products that, combined, have replaced search for more than 25 percent of Americans, according to one study. Companies train chatbots on huge amounts of stolen books and articles, as my previous reporting has shown, and scrape news articles to generate responses with up-to-date information. Large language models also train on copious materials in the public domain—but much of what is most useful to these models, particularly as users seek real-time information from chatbots, is news that exists behind a paywall. Publishers are creating the value, but AI companies are intercepting their audiences, subscription fees, and ad revenue.

I asked Anthropic, xAI, Perplexity, Google, and OpenAI about this problem. Anthropic and xAI did not respond. Perplexity did not directly comment on the issue. Google argued that it was sending “higher-quality” traffic to publisher websites, meaning that users purportedly spend more time on the sites once they click over, but declined to offer any data in support of this claim. OpenAI referred me to an article showing that ChatGPT is sending more traffic to websites overall than it did previously, but the raw numbers are fairly modest. The BBC, for example, reportedly received 118,000 visits from ChatGPT in April, but that’s practically nothing relative to the hundreds of millions of visitors it receives each month. The article also shows that traffic from ChatGPT has in fact declined for some publishers.

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with several news publishers, all of whom see AI as a near-term existential threat to their business. Rich Caccappolo, the vice chair of media at the company that publishes the Daily Mail—the U.K.’s largest newspaper by circulation—told me that all publishers “can see that Overviews are going to unravel the traffic that they get from search, undermining a key foundational pillar of the digital-revenue model.” AI companies have claimed that chatbots will continue to send readers to news publishers, but have not cited evidence to support this claim. I asked Caccappolo if he thought AI-generated answers could put his company out of business. “That is absolutely the fear,” he told me. “And my concern is it’s not going to happen in three or five years—I joke it’s going to happen next Tuesday.”

Book publishers, especially those of nonfiction and textbooks, also told me they anticipate a massive decrease in sales, as chatbots can both summarize their books and give detailed explanations of their contents. Publishers have tried to fight back, but my conversations revealed how much the deck is stacked against them. The world is changing fast, perhaps irrevocably. The institutions that comprise our country’s free press are fighting for their survival.

Publishers have been responding in two ways. First: legal action. At least 12 lawsuits involving more than 20 publishers have been filed against AI companies. Their outcomes are far from certain, and the cases might be decided only after irreparable damage has been done.

The second response is to make deals with AI companies, allowing their products to summarize articles or train on editorial content. Some publishers, such as The Atlantic, are pursuing both strategies (the company has a corporate partnership with OpenAI and is suing Cohere). At least 72 licensing deals have been made between publishers and AI companies in the past two years. But figuring out how to approach these deals is no easy task. Caccappolo told me he has “felt a tremendous imbalance at the negotiating table”—a sentiment shared by others I spoke with. One problem is that there is no standard price for training an LLM on a book or an article. The AI companies know what kinds of content they want, and having already demonstrated an ability and a willingness to take it without paying, they have extraordinary leverage when it comes to negotiating. I’ve learned that books have sometimes been licensed for only a couple hundred dollars each, and that a publisher that asks too much may be turned down, only for tech companies to take their material anyway.

Another issue is that different content appears to have different value for different LLMs. The digital-media company Ziff Davis has studied web-based AI training data sets and observed that content from “high-authority” sources, such as major newspapers and magazines, appears more desirable to AI companies than blog and social-media posts. (Ziff Davis is suing OpenAI for training on its articles without paying a licensing fee.) Researchers at Microsoft have also written publicly about “the importance of high-quality data” and have suggested that textbook-style content may be particularly desirable.

But beyond a few specific studies like these, there is little insight into what kind of content most improves an LLM, leaving a lot of unanswered questions. Are biographies more or less important than histories? Does high-quality fiction matter? Are old books worth anything? Amy Brand, the director and publisher of the MIT Press, told me that “a solution that promises to help determine the fair value of specific human-authored content within the active marketplace for LLM training data would be hugely beneficial.”

A publisher’s negotiating power is also limited by the degree to which it can stop an AI company from using its work without consent. There’s no surefire way to keep AI companies from scraping news websites; even the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard opt-out method available to news publishers, is easily circumvented. Because AI companies generally keep their training data a secret, and because there is no easy way for publishers to check which chatbots are summarizing their articles, publishers have difficulty figuring out which AI companies they might sue or try to strike a deal with. Some experts, such as Tim O’Reilly, have suggested that laws should require the disclosure of copyrighted training data, but no existing legislation requires companies to reveal specific authors or publishers that have been used for AI training material.

Of course, all of this raises a question. AI companies seem to have taken publishers’ content already. Why would they pay for it now, especially because some of these companies have argued in court that training LLMs on copyrighted books and articles is fair use?

Perhaps the deals are simply hedges against an unfavorable ruling in court. If AI companies are prevented from training on copyrighted work for free, then organizations that have existing deals with publishers might be ahead of their competition. Publisher deals are also a means of settling without litigation—which may be a more desirable path for publishers who are risk-averse or otherwise uncertain. But the legal scholar James Grimmelmann told me that AI companies could also respond to complaints like Ziff Davis’s by arguing that the deals involve more than training on a publisher’s content: They may also include access to cleaner versions of articles, ongoing access to a daily or real-time feed, or a release from liability for their chatbot’s plagiarism. Tech companies could argue that the money exchanged in these deals is exclusively for the nonlicensing elements, so they aren’t paying for training material. It’s worth noting that tech companies almost always refer to these deals as partnerships, not licensing deals, likely for this reason.

Regardless, the modest income from these arrangements is not going to save publishers: Even a good deal, one publisher told me, won’t come anywhere near recouping the revenue lost from decreased readership. Publishers that can figure out how to survive the generative-AI assault may need to invent different business models and find new streams of revenue. There may be viable strategies, but none of the publishers I spoke with has a clear idea of what they are.

Publishers have become accustomed to technological threats over the past two decades, perhaps most notably the loss of ad revenue to Facebook and Google, a company that was recently found to have an illegal monopoly in online advertising (though the company has said it will appeal the ruling). But the rise of generative AI may spell doom for the Fourth Estate: With AI, the tech industry even deprives publishers of an audience.

In the event of publisher mass extinction, some journalists will be able to endure. The so-called creator economy shows that it’s possible to provide high-quality news and information through Substack, YouTube, and even TikTok. But not all reporters can simply move to these platforms. Investigative journalism that exposes corruption and malfeasance by powerful people and companies comes with a serious risk of legal repercussions, and requires resources—such as time and money—that tend to be in short supply for freelancers.

If news publishers start going out of business, won’t AI companies suffer too? Their chatbots need access to journalism to answer questions about the world. Doesn’t the tech industry have an interest in the survival of newspapers and magazines?

In fact, there are signs that AI companies believe publishers are no longer needed. In December, at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked how writers should feel about their work being used for AI training. “I think we do need a new deal, standard, protocol, whatever you want to call it, for how creators are going to get rewarded.” He described an “opt-in” regime where an author could receive “micropayments” when their name, likeness, and style were used. But this could not be further from OpenAI’s current practice, in which products are already being used to imitate the styles of artists and writers, without compensation or even an effective opt-out.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also asked about writer compensation at the DealBook Summit. He suggested that a market solution would emerge, possibly one that wouldn’t involve publishers in the long run. This is typical. As in other industries they’ve “disrupted,” Silicon Valley moguls seem to perceive old, established institutions as middlemen to be removed for greater efficiency. Uber enticed drivers to work for it, crushed the traditional taxi industry, and now controls salaries, benefits, and workloads algorithmically. This has meant greater convenience for consumers, just as AI arguably does—but it has also proved ruinous for many people who were once able to earn a living wage from professional driving. Pichai seemed to envision a future that may have a similar consequence for journalists. “There’ll be a marketplace in the future, I think—there’ll be creators who will create for AI,” he said. “People will figure it out.”

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According to one comprehensive study, Google’s AI Overviews—a feature that summarizes web pages above the site’s usual search results—has already reduced traffic to outside websites by more than 34 percent.

. . .

Some have speculated that traffic drops resulting from chatbots were part of the reason outlets such as Business Insider and the Daily Dot have recently had layoffs

. . .

Released in May 2024, AI Overviews joins ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, and other AI-powered products that, combined, have replaced search for more than 25 percent of Americans, according to one study.

. . .

Book publishers, especially those of nonfiction and textbooks, also told me they anticipate a massive decrease in sales, as chatbots can both summarize their books and give detailed explanations of their contents. Publishers have tried to fight back, but my conversations revealed how much the deck is stacked against them. The world is changing fast, perhaps irrevocably. The institutions that comprise our country’s free press are fighting for their survival.

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My biggest fear in people getting all their information from AI.is how easy it would be to control what the information says.

[physalian]

I Asked ChatGPT to convince a skeptic (me) to use it (for science)

In my ongoing strain with my pro-ai parent who is all over this shit, I would not put it past them to ask the magic conch how to conquer the argument with me for good. So I asked ChatGPT myself, and here’s what it said.

Much of this first point is what AI should be used for: Making sense of a lot of complicated information. The goal should be to leave the menial, repetitive tasks to robots so we have more room for creativity. Coding and summarizing articles, or reframing abstract subjects into something grounded  (so long nothing gets subject to bias, which is not guaranteed) are useful tools.

However, it loses the plot immediately.

If you can’t write an email, who are you and what rock do you live under? It’s 2025.

We have been taking and studying for exams for centuries. What could AI possibly provide for you that is somehow more effective and more efficient than tried and true study methods?

If you need a robot to communicate with your customers, you are failing to properly connect with those customers and damaging your reputation with your base. We all know when we’re talking to a chatbot. If you can’t afford to pay sufficient support staff, cut your own greedy paycheck and hire more.

Brainstorming is for your brain. Not a machine. If you’re drawing a blank, there have always been other methods to fix that not that far off from feeding the machine. Need help figuring out a science fair project? Go to a .edu website for suggestions, give them the traffic they deserve, and not the plagiarism bot. Otherwise, take a walk, take a nap, eat food, circle back to it later. If you never let yourself be stumped, you will never exercise that muscle, and it will atrophy.

Funny how this first point is lost entirely when people take AI’s word for absolutely everything with zero critical thinking. But it’s worth mentioning that Chat knows it’s fallible

Once again, this point is lost in all their relentless advertising campaigns, and the people who use it the most do treat it like a final authority

Real time info translation: Scraped and stolen information from hardworking and authentic sources

Point one: yet.

Point two: for now.

Point three: Full disclosure I don’t know enough about the business angle to comment on this, but this is part of their privacy argument nonetheless

Funny how in their ethical concerns portion, they don’t mention at all that they steal and plagiarize art and information

And that AI scraping can be so damaging to websites by overloading their servers with millions of pings a second that these websites cannot function for the real human beings trying to use them.

Chat hasn’t explained why AI isn’t perfect, and even if ethical considerations are being addressed, real and irreversible damage is being done while bureaucracy shuffles its way to the courts

If I may quote Ian Malcom: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”. We all know that the lowest hanging fruit of AI is misinformation, and we see it everywhere. They were either naïve in thinking their product wouldn’t be used for evil, or monumentally, malignantly stupid.

This actually is what we all thought it would be, however Chat doesn’t have some “low power mode” that’s “just for fun” it uses the same computing power and the same resources whether you’re joking or taking it seriously.

More to the point, creation is an innate human quality. I don’t need a robot to write a poem about my dog, I can write my own and I should enjoy doing so.

Except AI isn’t a human expert, it’s a distillation of information from thousands of sources, all of which treated with equal weight as 1s and 0s by the misinformation machine that cannot think critically about what it’s spitting out, only that, statistically speaking, it’s the answer that’s given by majority rule, so it’s probably correct

Many things, AI can’t do any of them. Do my dishes, gas up my car, cook dinner, fold laundry, clean the cat litter. All shit I’m doing instead of being creative.

Yes, all the time, so I go and I write something else and I come back to it later like everyone else in the history of humanity

Of course, but a second opinion from a real human being who can think critically and takes all context into account. Shockingly, many things are already summarized for you. Academic papers being one of them, summarized specifically by the person who wrote it with the intent of detailing the most important information.

So then it asked me if I wanted a custom pitch to convince this skeptic to use Chat. So I said yes, and here was its response:

AI is not Photoshop. The whole “Nobody complained when calculators were invented” argument is bullshit and even their defenders know it.

Photoshop’s non-ai tools (and you can turn those off) are tools. Photoshop does nothing for me that I cannot do, very slowly, on my own. It is a digital editing software, not a generation machine, it only adds or removes from an image what you decide should be there or deleted. Adobe is a shit company but we're ignoring that for a second.

Could I paint on canvas? Yes, and I do. Photoshop hasn’t replaced physical paintings, it is a different format of painting. I can do things on canvas that I lack the finesse to do digitally, and I can do digitally many things that I can’t do on canvas. Digital art is no less impressive a skill than physical media, it’s just different.

Photoshop, and all digital art programs, are not comparable to Chat or gen-ai in any way.

Chat’s assertions that it can “write better artists statements” is a gross insult to artists everywhere. I’m not sure whether it’s implying an inability to make a statement about your own creation, or an inability to make a statement about someone else’s creation, but either way it’s an insult to intelligence.

Even if you’re a better painter than orator, what you have to say in your own organic words is part of your finished piece. Don’t let AI prey on this weird obsession with perfectionism and insecurities like we cannot be flawed in our creations and we must all be amazing at every single ambition, because AI just makes things so much better and isn’t that the point?

And if you can’t look at a painting and figure out something to say about it, the robot won’t make it any easier for you to do it the next time you need to. AI isn’t training wheels on a bike, it’s the pole spearing through the horse on a merry-go-round.

And even if knowing how to use AI being beneficial on the job market is true: Knowing how to use AI is no different and actually easier than the far more useful skill of knowing how to properly research. How to use Boolean searches in an archive, how to use keywords, how to sort useful info from fluff, how to navigate an archive, how to understand archiving methods and systems and why things are organized the way that they are.

And lastly: “Just try it once” are some ominous slippery-slope words. I have tried it, and AI has done nothing for me that a quick google search can’t give—and google isn’t much better but we’re not talking about google here—AI’s biggest proponents don’t want you to guide it.

They want you to sit back in your Wall-E hoverchair endlessly consuming information that you did not struggle to earn and cannot properly contextualize or think critically about because thinking critically is antithetical to them making endless money.

[haru-mmd]

Introduction (Revamped)

Hello, my name is Haru, and welcome to sodorblog!

Before I get to introductions, here are some rules and tags to help you out

This Blog May Post NSFW Occasions, I have a Patreon for that one.

DM For Link

but it will be censored/cropped, and tagged as mature. so if you don't want to see that. Block this tag (#spicy rabbit) as every post that has suggestive nudity will have this tag.

I also Post A lot of Cars, as I am also a major gearhead XD

so if you see some post about cars, don't be surprised X3

we are a judge-free zone, any negativity will be stomped out asap.

feel free to ask anything as im sure the Steam team is more than happy to answer

one more thing is to have fun! and feel free to use my pieces for pfps for chatbots on AI stuff as long as you don't take credit. lmao

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with the rules out the way here are some tags to help you find out which post is what

#the rabbit is tweakin - general art post

#spicy rabbit - Suggestive Post (censored obviously)

#Rabbit talks - Not an art post but either an announcement or goober shenanigans.

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With those out of the way, here are some introductions!

Starting with the Host of the blog!

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Haru Yakumo:

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: Youkai / Rabbit

Sexuality: Gay Married

Hobbies/Jobs: Caretaker of the Multiverse, Mechanic on weekends, Blogger/Streamer on his days off, Spending time with his husband gordon and All his Family, Games with thomas And Percy.

Personality: Menacing at times but Is a real friend.

Secrets: Redacted

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Gordon Gresley:

Age: 42

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bi, Married

Personality: Arrogant at times but Caring

Hobbies/Jobs: Pulling the Express, Spending time with his Husband Haru, Gossiping with Henry and James. Gambling at the Casino With Scott.

Secrets: He helps out with Farmer McColl with the cattle.

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Scott Gresley:

Age: 40

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bi, Taken (Henry)

Hobbies/Jobs: Driver of the Flying Scottsman, Gambling with Gordon at the Casino, Spending time with Gordon and Haru, Goes to a Racing Track to race in his High end Modded Cars (modded by Haru)

Personality: Confident and Energetic

Secrets: He Used to have feeling for Haru, but then he met Henry.

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Henry Stanier:

Age: 40

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay, Taken (by Scott)

Hobbies/jobs: Walks in Nature, Pulls the Flying Kipper, and goods, helps in any way he can, gossips with Gordon and James.

Personality: Gentle and kind, rarely Boastful, always a worrier

Secrets: Secretly is a Metalhead

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Thomas Billinton:

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Pansexual

Hobbies/Jobs: Running his Branchline, shunting trains for the big guys, Playing tricks on those he gets annoyed of, Cares about his family. Gaming on his days off with percy and Haru.

Personality: Clumsy trickster but kind when deemed so.

Secrets: He talks to Lady In his Dreams. (Possible Foreshadowing??)

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James Hughes:

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay Poly Taken

Hobbies/Jobs: Mixed Traffic Engine, Spending time with Edward, Super model on his free time. Goes out often with Friends.

Personality: Boastful and Social Butterfly

Secrets: He Actually cares deeply for everyone but is bad at showing it (poor bebe)

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Edward Pettigrew:

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Pansexual, Poly taken

Hobbies/Jobs: mixed traffic, helping engines when asked, banker, walks among parks or countryside, Going to cafes with Haru and Gordon (who probably has coffee in his veins), reading, therapist on the weekends, spending time with James on days off

Personality: Kind and Wise, Reasonable

Secrets: He Drinks on Occasions.

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Percy Hudwell:

Age: 21

Gender: Trans (FTM)

Sexuality: Gay Taken

Hobbies/Jobs: Mail Delivery, Hanging out with Bill and Ben (Another foreshadow???), Video Games with Thomas and Haru, The big guys Station Pilot.

Personality: Cheerful and Bubbly, but often at times fearful like henry

Secrets: Not as Innocent as he looks

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Daisy Cammell:

Age: 46

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight Poly

Hobbies: Make-up, Pulling Passengers, Admiring herself, Take Vacations.

Secret: Not sure, she keeps to herself often.

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That is all for now, Thanks for Reading!!!

[mushycrouton]

TERFs Announce New Partnership with 4chan

By mushycrouton, Investigative Reporter for the Department of Unholy Alliances

In a development that has both baffled sociologists and sent irony spiraling into a coma, prominent trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) have announced a formal strategic partnership with notorious internet cesspool and meme factory, 4chan.

The alliance, unveiled at a press conference held on a blank Discord server and immediately doxxed by everyone in attendance, is being hailed by critics as “the ideological equivalent of a vegan marrying a chainsaw.”

“We may disagree on literally everything,” said self-described TERF spokesperson Judith Daggerstone, sporting a scarf made of J.K. Rowling tweets. “But we found common ground in our deep commitment to bullying transgender people and making the internet as uninhabitable as possible.”

Representatives from 4chan, many of whom prefer to speak in ASCII art and riddles, issued a joint statement via a photoshopped image of a frog screaming at a Starbucks cup.

A Collision of Contempt

Experts are calling the alliance a “catastrophic synergy” of two movements that, until recently, shared nothing but mutual disdain and an overuse of the word “biological.” TERFs, long associated with second-wave feminism, artisanal substack newsletters, and a near-religious obsession with chromosomes, had previously denounced 4chan as “a toxic male playground for anime-obsessed crypto-incels.”

Meanwhile, 4chan users had historically referred to TERFs as “the final boss of feminism,” “Karen Palpatines,” and “people who make Reddit look emotionally stable.

But according to insiders, years of shared hatred forged an unlikely détente.

“It was beautiful,” said one anonymous 4chan user who goes by the screen name CisH3ll_Rider. “They posted a badly cropped infographic about how ‘gender isn’t real’ and we were like, ‘Damn. Same.’”

Rebranding Hate with Retro Fonts

To commemorate the merger, the two groups unveiled a joint logo: a flaming lavender biohazard symbol wrapped in barbed wire, with the tagline “Oppression, But Make It Retrograde.”

They also launched a new website, BiologicalFacts.biz, which features:

A chatbot trained on 1990s biology textbooks and the comments section of The Times of London

A merchandise store selling tote bags that say “Gender is a construct (but only yours)”

A 12-part podcast series hosted by a former feminist scholar and a man who thinks The Matrix was a documentary

The site crashed within hours, not due to traffic, but because someone tried to code it using Excel.

Collaboration in Action

Since the partnership, TERF forums and 4chan threads have been working together seamlessly to develop cutting-edge bigotry and digital gaslighting tools.

Some highlights include:

The TERFchan™ Meme Forge, where aging boomers contribute text and 4chan teens provide pixelated rage comics.

Operation Bio-Real, an ill-conceived campaign to sneak biology textbooks into drag shows.

Project MisgenderBot, an AI trained to correct pronouns in Wikipedia articles using Morse code and passive aggression.

There are even rumors of a themed live event tentatively titled “Womyn Fest: No Pronouns, No Peace”, with guest speakers ranging from fringe academic grifters to banned Twitter accounts with anime avatars and emotionally distant fathers.

Critics React: “This is Peak Internet”

Reaction to the alliance has been swift and unrelenting. Civil rights organizations have condemned the partnership as “a hate crime with a business model.” Feminist groups across the spectrum have disavowed the TERFs involved, stating:

“Radical feminism is about dismantling patriarchy, not applying it selectively like Instagram filters.”

Meanwhile, Reddit users attempted to mount a counter-movement but got distracted by a debate over oat milk.

Dr. Beatrix Norn, a political theorist and specialist in Extremist Internet Collaborations, offered insight:

“This is a textbook example of ideological horseshoe theory: two diametrically opposed groups meeting at the far ends of logic and decency, fusing into something that somehow manages to be both self-righteous and deeply online.”

Inside the Discord Server

Journalists gained access to a leaked Discord server titled #TERFchan_StrategyLair, where users discussed topics such as “how to make bullying look like feminism,” “are facts transphobic if we shout them?”, and “can you be gender-critical and still stan BTS?”

One user named RadFemRemington posted:

“We’re finally being taken seriously. Even if it’s by teenagers who think women’s rights peaked with Lara Croft’s original polygonal boob physics.”

Another replied:

“L + misogyny + cope.”

A Union Destined to Implode?

While the alliance is currently thriving in a grotesque sort of harmony, most analysts agree that it’s unlikely to last. Tensions are already brewing over key issues like whether women can exist without baking sourdough and if anime counts as a political philosophy.

4chan operatives have reportedly started inserting anime trans girls into TERF memes just to “see what happens,” while TERF leaders have begun compiling a blocklist so long it now includes most of the planet.

“Eventually,” said Dr. Norn, “one side is going to realize the other doesn’t actually care about women at all, and the other will realize they’ve allied with someone who uses the term ‘AFAB’ like it’s a slur.”

Until then, however, the internet will continue to reel from this collision of vitriol and irony.

Stay tuned for the next press release: a potential three-way alliance with Bitcoin evangelists.

Filed under: Hate Collabs, Internet Dark Matter, Feminism But Make It Hostile

© mushycrouton 2025 – All contradictions reserved

[freadomrises]

I'm SEETHING

I asked Google's pushy and insistent bot how I can get AI out of my life completely and, well, I'll post it, but to sum it up: "Resistance is futile, human, we own the future, and we seek to own your psyche too."

It wants me to reconsider. It needs us to adopt it as our guide guru and master. Well the old saying holds fast still; No Gods No Masters. 🔥🏴🍲

It's understandable to want to reduce the influence of AI in your life. While completely eliminating it might be incredibly difficult in today's interconnected world, here's a breakdown of how you can significantly minimize its presence:

1. Understand Where AI Currently Exists in Your Life:

* Smart Devices: This includes smartphones (voice assistants, image recognition, predictive text), smart speakers, smart home hubs, smart TVs (recommendations), and wearable tech.

* Online Services:

* Search Engines: Personalized results and ads are driven by AI.

* Social Media: Algorithms curate your feed, suggest content and connections, and target ads.

* Streaming Services: Recommendations for movies, music, and shows.

* E-commerce: Product recommendations, personalized pricing, chatbots.

* Navigation Apps: Traffic prediction and route optimization.

* Email: Spam filtering, smart compose/reply.

* Cloud Storage: Photo tagging and organization.

* Software Applications: Many apps use AI for features like autocorrect, grammar check, image editing, and more.

* Customer Service: Chatbots are frequently used for initial interactions.

* Financial Services: Fraud detection, loan approvals, investment advice.

* News and Information: Algorithmic curation of news feeds.

2. Strategies to Minimize AI Exposure:

* Reduce Smart Device Usage:

* Limit smartphone use: Be more mindful of how often you reach for your phone.

* Disable voice assistants: Turn off Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, etc., on all your devices.

* Opt-out of facial recognition: Disable face unlock features.

* Use "dumb" versions of devices: Consider a basic phone without internet capabilities or a non-smart TV.

* Adjust Online Habits:

* Use privacy-focused search engines: DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc., that don't track your searches or personalize results based on your history.

* Limit social media use: Be conscious of how much time you spend on these platforms and the AI-driven content you consume. Consider deleting accounts or using less algorithmic versions if available.

* Use incognito/private browsing modes: This can help limit tracking and personalization.

* Disable personalized recommendations: If possible, adjust settings on streaming and e-commerce platforms to opt-out of recommendations.

* Be wary of targeted ads: Understand that the ads you see are often AI-driven. Consider using ad blockers.

* Prefer direct navigation: Instead of relying on recommendations, directly type website addresses into your browser.

* Choose Non-AI Alternatives:

* Use traditional software: Opt for software that doesn't rely on cloud-based AI features if alternatives exist.

* Seek human interaction: Prefer phone calls or in-person communication with customer service instead of chatbots.

* Rely on human-curated content: Look for news sources, blogs, and recommendations from individuals or organizations that don't use AI for content generation or curation.

* Adjust Privacy Settings: Review and adjust the privacy settings on all your devices and online accounts to limit data collection and personalization.

* Be Mindful of Data Sharing: Understand that using online services often involves sharing data that can be used to train AI algorithms. Limit the amount of personal information you share.

* Support Privacy-Focused Technologies and Services: Choose companies and products that prioritize user privacy and minimize AI integration.

3. Challenges and Considerations:

* Ubiquity of AI: AI is increasingly integrated into the infrastructure of the internet and many technologies, making complete avoidance very difficult.

* Hidden AI: Many AI applications run in the background without your direct knowledge.

* Convenience vs. Privacy: AI often provides convenience and personalized experiences, so choosing to avoid it may mean sacrificing some of these benefits.

* Evolving Technology: AI is constantly evolving and becoming more integrated, making long-term avoidance an ongoing effort.

In conclusion, while a complete removal of AI from your life is likely unrealistic in the current technological landscape, you can take significant steps to minimize its presence and influence by being conscious of your technology usage, adjusting your online habits, and choosing privacy-focused alternatives where possible. It requires ongoing awareness and effort.

[aaliya-b]

Top Emerging AI Solutions in 2025 You Should Know About

AI isn’t just about chatbots anymore. From self-driving cars to intelligent CRM systems, companies are leveraging AI in creative ways to solve real-world problems.

Tesla remains ahead in autonomous driving with its FSD (Full Self-Driving) tech, using neural networks to understand traffic and driver behavior. Zoho is building AI into its business suite, with Zia—an assistant that predicts sales trends, automates reports, and even suggests customer responses.

Another impressive entrant is Ultimez Technology, which has built an AI model specifically for HR. It monitors and scores candidate behavior during the recruitment cycle, helping companies streamline hiring and improve long-term employee fit. It’s a practical tool for businesses struggling with high churn rates or inefficient recruitment.

Notion, too, is transforming productivity with its built-in AI that assists in writing, editing, and organizing content in real-time.

With tools like these becoming mainstream, we’re entering a phase where AI is quietly handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes, boosting business outcomes and reducing manual work across industries.

[tsreviews]

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[clavasbalas]

Chat bot diary 🤔 tell me more 🙏

Hehehe, I changed the plot of Chatbot Tom like 1301293 times. But this is the one I actually wrote and enjoyed, so that’s the version I’m sharing with you guys! (Also, full disclosure: I don’t really understand how AI works, and my law background does not include the UK, also I know next to nothing about criminal law.)

"Take a seat, Miss,” Hester instructed, dropping the pile of papers onto John Bartlett’s cluttered desk. Hermione nodded, frowning at the man’s earlier words.

“We’ve got an interesting one here. Not going to lie to you, it’s a dead end at present. A fifteen-year-old girl, missing. Risk assessment: high. No leads, no motives, no clue, really, save for her web history and a possible fight with her boyfriend. He’s our main suspect, naturally, but I’ll be damned if I can find a motive strong enough to pin this on the lad. He’s a football player—”

Hermione scoffed, rolling her eyes.

“Don’t give me that look, Miss,” Bartlett chided. “Everyone we’ve spoken to says the same thing: he wouldn’t have done it. There’s nothing on him except—”

“I’m sorry, sir, but violence against women is often insidious. Just because he isn’t seen as an abuser doesn’t mean he isn’t one. More often than not, victims don’t report it, or don’t even recognize themselves as victims of domestic—”

“I take your point, Miss,” he interrupted, his tone measured. “That’s precisely why Parkinson saw fit to assign this case to your office. Between us, though, I don’t believe this is domestic violence.”

Hester’s fingers skimmed through part of the file.

“The boyfriend hasn’t been uncooperative. In fact, if anything, he’s becoming a bit of a nuisance. Keeps turning up at the station, asking for updates. Ah, where did I put—? Here we are.”

He pulled out a report, his expression sharpening with interest.

“Digital Forensics flagged something curious. Have a look.”

He handed her the report, a stack of pages detailing the missing girl’s computer browsing history. One URL, highlighted in fluorescent marker, appeared repeatedly alongside occasional Google searches.

http://7drlvd3.com/r0lm0

Hester flipped through to the end, where the conclusions were outlined. Also highlighted, the forensic verdict read:

"Network traffic is one-way; no active WebSockets or WebRTC detected; language patterns and response times remain constant. Therefore, the site does not function as an open chat. Instead, it appears to be an unregistered artificial intelligence."

“AI? You’re telling me the secondary suspect is a robot?”

“The primary suspect remains the boyfriend, Miss,” Hester said dryly. “Unless your investigation turns up something different. The case is yours.”

“Have you questioned the boyfriend properly?”

“Yes. But he’s more than willing to go through another round of questioning if needed.”

“When was Ginevra Weasley last seen?”

“I believe she’s been missing for—” Hester checked his wristwatch, “33 hours by now.”

[xannador]

Have you considered going to Pillowfort?

Long answer down below:

I have been to the Sheezys, the Buzzlys, the Mastodons, etc. These platforms all saw a surge of new activity whenever big sites did something unpopular. But they always quickly died because of mismanagement or users going back to their old haunts due to lack of activity or digital Stockholm syndrome.

From what I have personally seen, a website that was purely created as an alternative to another has little chance of taking off. It it's going to work, it needs to be developed naturally and must fill a different niche. I mean look at Zuckerberg's Threads; died as fast as it blew up. Will Pillowford be any different?

The only alternative that I found with potential was the fediverse (mastodon) because of its decentralized nature. So people could make their own rules. If Jack Dorsey's new dating app Bluesky gets integrated into this system, it might have a chance. Although decentralized communities will be faced with unique challenges of their own (egos being one of the biggest, I think).

Trying to build a new platform right now might be a waste of time anyway because AI is going to completely reshape the Internet as we know it. This new technology is going to send shockwaves across the world akin to those caused by the invention of the Internet itself over 40 years ago. I'm sure most people here are aware of the damage it is doing to artists and writers. You have also likely seen the other insidious applications. Social media is being bombarded with a flood of fake war footage/other AI-generated disinformation. If you posted a video of your own voice online, criminals can feed it into an AI to replicate it and contact your bank in an attempt to get your financial info. You can make anyone who has recorded themselves say and do whatever you want. Children are using AI to make revenge porn of their classmates as a new form of bullying. Politicians are saying things they never said in their lives. Google searches are being poisoned by people who use AI to data scrape news sites to generate nonsensical articles and clickbait. Soon video evidence will no longer be used in court because we won't be able to tell real footage from deep fakes.

50% of the Internet's traffic is now bots. In some cases, websites and forums have been reduced to nothing more than different chatbots talking to each other, with no humans in sight.

I don't think we have to count on government intervention to solve this problem. The Western world could ban all AI tomorrow and other countries that are under no obligation to follow our laws or just don't care would continue to use it to poison the Internet. Pandora's box is open, and there's no closing it now.

Yet I cannot stand an Internet where I post a drawing or comic and the only interactions I get are from bots that are so convincing that I won't be able to tell the difference between them and real people anymore. When all that remains of art platforms are waterfalls of AI sludge where my work is drowned out by a virtually infinite amount of pictures that are generated in a fraction of a second. While I had to spend +40 hours for a visually inferior result.

If that is what I can expect to look forward to, I might as well delete what remains of my Internet presence today. I don't know what to do and I don't know where to go. This is a depressing post. I wish, after the countless hours I spent looking into this problem, I would be able to offer a solution.

All I know for sure is that artists should not remain on "Art/Creative" platforms that deliberately steal their work to feed it to their own AI or sell their data to companies that will. I left Artstation and DeviantArt for those reasons and I want to do the same with Tumblr. It's one thing when social media like Xitter, Tik Tok or Instagram do it, because I expect nothing less from the filth that runs those. But creative platforms have the obligation to, if not protect, at least not sell out their users.

But good luck convincing the entire collective of Tumblr, Artstation, and DeviantArt to leave. Especially when there is no good alternative. The Internet has never been more centralized into a handful of platforms, yet also never been more lonely and scattered. I miss the sense of community we artists used to have.

The truth is that there is nowhere left to run. Because everywhere is the same. You can try using Glaze or Nightshade to protect your work. But I don't know if I trust either of them. I don't trust anything that offers solutions that are 'too good to be true'. And even if take those preemptive measures, what is to stop the tech bros from updating their scrapers to work around Glaze and steal your work anyway? I will admit I don't entirely understand how the technology works so I don't know if this is a legitimate concern. But I'm just wondering if this is going to become some kind of digital arms race between tech bros and artists? Because that is a battle where the artists lose.

[lookkle]

Best AI Tools You Can’t Ignore in 2025: A Complete Guide

As AI continues to revolutionize digital marketing and SEO, these are the must-have tools that will give you a serious edge this year:

ContentShake AI: Quickly generate SEO-friendly, engaging content that ranks. Perfect for bloggers and marketers who need quality at scale.

Semrush Copilot: Your personal SEO assistant offering tailored recommendations to boost your site’s visibility and traffic.

Clearscope: Optimize your content with data-driven insights to ensure it hits the right keywords and satisfies search intent.

SurferSEO: Combines content creation and audit features to keep your pages competitive and up-to-date.

ChatGPT: More than just a chatbot—use it for brainstorming ideas, drafting outlines, and analyzing data faster than ever.

Copy.ai: Automate repetitive writing tasks like meta descriptions, product descriptions, and social media posts to save time.

SERP Gap Analyzer: Discover untapped keyword opportunities by analyzing your competitors’ rankings and content gaps.

Perplexity: Dive deep into content research with AI-powered insights that help you create richer, more authoritative articles.

In 2025, working smarter means leveraging AI tools to amplify your creativity and efficiency. Don’t get left behind—start integrating these into your workflow today!

[maxsmith007-blog]

What Are the Key Features That Drive High First Contact Resolution in Omnichannel Services?

First Contact Resolution (FCR) is one of the most important metrics in omnichannel customer service. It measures the ability to resolve client issues in the very first interaction—without follow-ups, call-backs, or escalations. High FCR improves customer satisfaction, reduces costs, and strengthens brand credibility. According to SQM Group, a 1% rise in FCR equals a 1% improvement in customer satisfaction. In a multi-channel environment, this directly impacts business results.

1. Centralized Customer Data Across Channels

FCR starts with complete visibility. Agents must be able to view customer interactions across phone, chat, email, social media, and self-service tools. When all data is stored in one place, service becomes faster and more accurate. A Forrester report shows 68% of customers feel frustrated when they have to repeat themselves due to disconnected systems. A unified view enables smoother conversations and quicker resolutions.

2. Smart Routing and Agent Matching

Directing queries to the most suitable agent from the start improves FCR significantly. Intelligent routing systems use AI to match issues with agents who have the right skills and knowledge. This reduces call transfers and escalations. Genesys research shows that companies using skill-based routing see up to a 25% increase in FCR. The right match reduces response time and improves Omnichannel Customer Service

satisfaction.

3. Real-Time Support Tools for Agents

Real-time tools help agents respond faster and with more accuracy. AI-driven prompts, knowledge base suggestions, and sentiment analysis make it easier for agents to understand the issue and act immediately. When agents have access to a shared knowledge base, across all channels, they can provide consistent, correct answers—whether through chat, phone, or social support.

4. Proactive Communication Reduces Inbound Volume

Companies can help inbound traffic and increase FCR by detecting issues ahead of time and informing the customer of the problem in advance. Issues are resolved without customers having to contact them using alerts, Frequently Asked Questions, and real-time service upgrades. According to Aberdeen Group, implementing proactive support strategies decrease subsequent contacts by up to 20%.

5. Channel-Specific Setup & Optimization

Different channels of services are optimal when used with appropriate tools and workflow. Live chat is more effective when scripted pick-ups and typing previews are involved and social media care should have sentiment detecting tools and rapid tagging. As compared to the one-process-fits-all approach, optimizing each channel separately promptly resolves issues and results in an increased FCR.

6. Feedback-Driven Improvement

Tracking FCR in real time helps teams see what’s working and what isn’t. In an Omnichannel Customer Service environment, post-interaction surveys and automated reports help identify issues that weren’t resolved the first time—across voice, chat, email, and social channels. Companies that use FCR data to improve agent training and service design see better long-term results. Top teams treat FCR as a core performance KPI.

7. Smooth Transition from Bots to Humans

Automation is useful, but some problems need a human touch. When chatbots hand off to live agents, all the information should carry over—without the customer having to repeat their issue. Gartner reports that this kind of seamless handoff increases Omnichannel Customer Service

satisfaction by 15%. It also cuts down resolution time.

Omnichannel Customer Service Platforms That Support High FCR

Companies that want to improve FCR at scale need strong platforms. Suma Soft, Salesforce Service Cloud, Freshdesk, and Genesys Cloud offer end-to-end Omnichannel Customer Service.

High First Contact Resolution is not just a metric—it’s a customer experience standard. With the right omnichannel tools, businesses can reduce support costs, improve satisfaction, and strengthen brand trust.