Two things: I did say “AI” programs would ultimately make up false stories about us all.
And what happened to me in 2024 was not as bad as what happened to Arve Hjalmar Holmen in Norway.
There are still a few disinformation stories left about me—about four more where companies who would normally enforce their policies suddenly gave up doing so. I’ll have to keep at it, but not as intensively as in 2024 when the disinformation articles were heading up many times a day.
Odd that after 20 years, Lucire’s Tradedoubler account has vanished (and by extension, Autocade’s), and one of their staff dealing with publishers can find no trace of it. There was only about £3 in there but £3 is £3. I don’t think they would have believed that we had an account if I didn’t show them emails their company had sent to us in July 2024.
This is why I don’t want to sign up for the BBC or the Telegraph websites. I’ve already done so. They’re the ones who unilaterally deleted the records. Why should I help them out?
At least Tradedoubler has escalated the issue to one of their IT people. Not being a massive US tech firm, I’m optimistic they’ll sort it out. It won’t be like the con job of Disqus.
Leigh Harrison sent me this link for a file transfer service for the times Smash is buggy. We can forget about Wetransfer as it has enshittified to a point where it’s not that useful.
Finally, this person says he has built a bot army designed to waste scammers’ time. The clips are pretty uncomfortable to listen to as the scammers blow their tops: better this than a scammer fleecing innocent people. We don’t have Jason Statham blowing away phone scammers in real life.
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