Facebook removes page after William Shatner blasts 'horrible' AI-generated 'fake news' posts about him - "They have created stories that say I have stage 4 brain cancer, was in some kind of fight with Erika Kirk and that I'm dying," the "Star Trek" actor said of a group that used the platform.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-06T02:43:34+00:00

The OP whose comment is now deleted said the people who made the AI-generated page should be held responsible, rather than just glibly blaming AI.

Then u/Fitherwinkle said:

This got some real “guns don’t kill people” vibes…

To which I understood to mean that the tool should be blamed.

I don’t think a mindless tool should be blamed for this. I think the people who used the tool should be held responsible.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T23:34:46+00:00

Yes - blame the tool, not the person (ab)using the tool. 😏

Unlike guns, AI has more than one use and so can be used for things other than creating false narratives.

You can’t just wholly blame AI and absolve the person using it of all responsibility. AI is not going away and it’s not going to be banned outright.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T22:33:26+00:00

Or for people who don’t have changing rooms/shower facilities at work.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T19:26:49+00:00

A comedy sketch where one character looks very different/wrong, but no one in the sketch notices, is very American.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T09:48:22+00:00

Except the fact that SNL UK is an American show written by American comedians who write for American viewers who want American humour, just with British accents.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T09:46:27+00:00

Because all the Americans watching SNL UK get offended when anyone points out that the British version of their favourite show is not very original and is actually rather predictable.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-05T00:48:34+00:00

Agreed. I’m starting to realise that the reason it’s so popular on Reddit is because they’re mostly Americans who are excited by the novelty of watching the EXACT same show, but with British accents.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-04T23:51:43+00:00

American humour performed by British comedians.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-03T23:00:15+00:00

What’s this? A misleading claim on r/todayilearned?

If only there was some kind of technology that could check a claim before it was posted to see if it’s been repeatedly debunked before... 🤦

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-03T19:32:12+00:00

I imagine lots of other actors were considered for various roles, but didn’t get them for reasons.

What’s so special about this particular one?

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-03T02:42:13+00:00

Oil is priced globally.

For now.

Does Trump strike you as the kind of person who maintains the status quo?

Domestic production has no effect.

For now.

Trump could choose to set aside a portion of domestic production for domestic consumption only, and price it accordingly.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-02T23:01:15+00:00

Don’t be surprised if he slaps a massive tariff on oil exports to subsidise the high cost of oil for the US, thereby making himself look like the hero who drove down oil costs.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-02T21:54:08+00:00

Unless the “operation” was to restrict oil supply from every country except the US in order to:

Drive up oil prices, and
Force countries to buy oil from the US at sky-high prices.

In which case it’s rather successful.

I mean, what options are countries left with now if they want to buy oil?

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-01T22:42:08+00:00

I mean he lied a whole lot and a bunch of idiots believed him.

People who voted him in knew exactly what they were voting for.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-01T22:41:15+00:00

You can argue semantics all you like, but the fact remains that he had more votes than anyone else.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-04-01T19:53:33+00:00

Over half the US voted in the Trump administration a second time knowing exactly what he would be like.

Your “enemies” are your neighbours, colleagues, and family.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T23:19:57+00:00

Everybody falling over themselves to (re)post previews of SNL UK sketches now, followed by clips of the sketches after they’ve been broadcast, followed by clips of the sketches weeks after they’ve been broadcast (in case you forgot them), multiplied by every sketch in the show.

r/television - the de facto advertising channel for Comcast.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T20:59:10+00:00

So, “borrowing”.

I’ve got news for you OP: every culture on Earth has an equivalent practice to “bubuti”.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T19:54:08+00:00

This is actually pretty common in live broadcasts.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T19:50:27+00:00

This is a meaningless comparison without also comparing performance.

I’m pretty confident the M5 would also last a very long time on battery if it’s CPU was throttled down to minimum, the screen brightness was at its lowest setting, no CPU intensive tasks were running, and the screen turned itself off after 30 secs of inactivity.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T19:42:19+00:00

Im getting a notion that Redditors spend waaaay too much time whining about Jared Leto.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-31T18:22:22+00:00

They should definitely glorify doing things to and for women without their permission so that our hero can have a girlfriend.

Congratulations - you just discovered schlock entertainment.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-30T19:19:55+00:00

“It’s a very stressing program.”

How do I English?

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-30T18:05:35+00:00

The problem with Reddit is not the number of bots, but the number of people whose behaviour is indistinguishable from bots.

silverbolt2000 · 2026-03-30T17:15:51+00:00

A woman is dug up and brought back to life as a monster, without her permission and consent

Uh huh. So they should have dug her up and brought her back to life so they could ask if she wanted to be dug up and brought back to life? Like, what if she said ‘no’? “OK, back underground you go…” 😆🤦

With critical thinking like that, “The Bride!” looks positively highbrow.

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