One can only imagine Visa and American Express sent representatives over to Elon with a strongly worded letter and maybe a crowbar.

Even if this purchasing model worked, it doesn't make sense. You're telling me that these companies earn commission on these sales and will try to find the best deal ensuring they get the lowest commission possible on the sale? Yeah right.

twirtter users will do it, too

edit: leaving the typo because fuck twirtter, and fuck twirtter users

That's what those Quarterly Reports fixes.

Profit marches on.

Musk definitely gonna max out everyone’s card for republican candidates

Imagine being so rich that you don't even see a problem with that

They wouldn't care, they're the network. The issuing banks OTOH...

Just have the money people flush the system. Can we do something like that? Can we just uh, block the Internet?

As if the AI won't just buy from whichever company has paid the biggest bribe to Elon for this.

I seem to recall that email scams were not super polished because their targets were people who didn't question too much. I see that this has been adopted more widely.

So... Apparently this is real

Not this time, you Tsukasa impersonator.

Please tell me that someone at least asked Elon to show them how it's done because they were a little confused. I can't see him not being able to show his superiority by doing it when they couldn't.

Why is that piece of shit not in prison?

How about, no.

No has never no'd so hard.

Didn't he found PayPal?

No not at all. That's just a fantasy he likes to perpetuate. He was actually fired and kicked out of PayPal because the other dude hated his guts, when he was away on his honeymoon, but he still had shares so he still made a lot of money from it. That other dude was our other famous Nazi, none other than Peter Thiel.

Also good luck disputing a purchase, that seems like a minefield.

Sorta ish.

He founded a company with a group of others(who left or were forced out) that merged with another(founded by Thiel and others) to become PayPal.

Shortly after the merger Musk was forced out as CEO in favour of Thiel.

They will start by skimming the referral dollars and depending on volume but eventually will start taking money to promote specific things.

We are not really at that level will LLM providers but we will be soon. Soon enough Google will more aggressively insert ads into Gemini and not long after that they will start taking money to have the LLMs casually add or avoid specific topics.

There was a twitter bot needacreditcard that would repost tweets with images and the word credit card in the text. It was full of tweets from mostly kids who bragged to their friends that they can now go shopping. And yes, some also posted the backside if you asked nicely.

Fuck, I can't even tell anymore

He actually did it and accidentally doxxed himself by posting his address

Does shopping even work like that when it's not in the grocery store?

purportate

Perpetuate.

Man, the internet has really just become a propaganda and advertising machine for a handful of billionaires, hasn't it? There's no fixing this, is there?

I think there'll be a limited reaction as time goes on, these days you see a fair few people getting fed up with the internet as it is now. I switched to an e-ink phone recently and loads of people on knowing they exist seem keen for one for example, people know Big Tech's products are generally bad for them at the end of the day. People who are okay with the doom feed of algorithmic propaganda and slop will stick with it, but dissatisfaction has produced some pretty impressive efforts, this platform included.

warning from grok bot: never share personal information with happy fun ball.

This is real... I can't even...
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109027407185277123

The way that they're coming under the microscope to earn profit it's going to happen very soon.

I just looked it up: Wealth doesnt strongly correlate to intelligence.
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/02/06/correlations-of-iq-with-income-and-wealth/

And a quote from idiocracy comes to mind:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c834333f-413c-43bc-9c8c-5c9cca3e82ae/gif

If there is a christian god out there, now would be the appropriate time for a great flood to do a full reboot. You there god? At least give us a sign?

or perpetrate

Also considered portray but perpetuate seemed like the best fit for the rest of the sentence.

Pre-AI: Companies spending months of work to be PCI DSS compliant

Post-AI: send your credit card details as a picture in a chat

Here ya go

Same way that he founder Tesla? Because when he bought the company, part of the purchase contract was that he could call himself a "founder".

I don't know, Imma look it up, but I suspect he founded PayPal the same way.

Edit: looked it up. Yep. He bought in, changed the name, and called himself a founder. Dude hasn't found shit. Apart from maybe peter thiels dick in his ass.

Why does everyone have to die, just because a handful of evil villains have taken over, tho. Surely an omnipresent god can do direct targeting... some well aimed lighting bolts should do it, yeah? Maybe the pre Christian version of the Christian god, Odin will be more helpful to call on?

The comments are always fascinating to read. Especially ones from 16+ years ago.

Lol no way this is real. Nobody actually believes this is ok???

Dang, thankfully I have a backup.

no.

Ooh, black card! Is there a Mr Name?

hell no!

…why not just tell grok the item you are looking for and have it send you a link to the best deal???

AI derangement syndrome, terminal.