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Axios used AI to fake an opinion poll (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by Ragdoll_X@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html

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[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Images are going to get auto blocked?

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Naw, this has been wafted around as a potential new feature allowing users to autoblock images for a while now. The funny part is that even if it does come to be, who cares? If people don't want pictures, whatever, it is not going to stop pictures being used and there is not really much concern if someone breaks their own use of lemmy (hell it is looking like people are going to dunk on those users).

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Over on Mastodon we block all images by default and it's SUPER nice. We click the picture to see it, it's no big deal.

-- Frost

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes no big deal having the option to autoblock images, a literal nothing burger. Having to change the format of posts and comments to pander to a small minority of users that think they should have a say about other users is an issue. The format police are not popular and most users would use more images just to spite them.

If or when that feature rolls out Lemmy wide, it better be an option and not a locked setting.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Is this not just "have the image be blacked out with a 'hidden' overlay, then you can click it to unhide it (with a button to re-hide it again if needed)"? That's how it works over on Masto, and it doesn't change the format of anything at all.

I don't know much about Lemmy development so have no idea what this new feature is like. If it's more like "filters out posts with images so you don't even see they exist in the first place", I could see that being annoying.

-- Frost

[–] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

There will be a new user option to block image posts.