Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jun-2025 23:50:06 JST

@bontchev @FediThing @baldur I'm so, so tired of this reasoning. It's a struggle just to get users to understand basic login and authentication, and they still get phished and their accounts hijacked continuously. Passkeys can cause them even more problems, especially when like many their Internet access is only from a single device -- usually their phone. They don't understand about backup accounts and recovery addresses. THEY BARELY UNDERSTAND THIS STUFF. And YOU claim they should be educated about AI? Give me a friggin' break. I've been dealing with the social implications of this stuff (via my PRIVACY Forum for almost 35 years continuously on the Net) seemingly forever, and you are NOT going to get busy people to understand AI tech. This is 100% the fault of Big Tech CEOs pushing out generative AI they KNOW is flawed and even dangerous. Google KNOWS they are stealing data from sites and now giving virtually nothing in return. Often no links. Bad links. And AI Overviews that take up the entire screen. And now AI Mode is even worse. STOP blaming the USERS!