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[Wburg Pete]

I'm on with 70 visitors this morning.

Also, is anyone else having to manually sign in each time you visit. I hit the "remember me" but still have to sign in next visit. No real biggie...just curious if I'm the only one.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm on with 70 visitors this morning.

Also, is anyone else having to manually sign in each time you visit. I hit the "remember me" but still have to sign in next visit. No real biggie...just curious if I'm the only one.

Not having to sign in; in fact, I'm not sure that I've ever actually signed out so the "remember me" option worked!

[robert.]

“ I need to keep signing in” are you clearing your history every day? That can sign you out

[Wburg Pete]

Nope

[healey36]

If I don't logout, then I stay logged in for the next time I bring up MTJ. It seems that, for me at least, I only get logged out if I initiate it. Otherwise, when I pull up MTJ, I'm still logged in.

Some forums log you out after a period of time (even when you're not online), but not MTJ.

As of 1723 today, the "users online" count on the board index page is back over 2000.

They're back...

[robert.]

Bots are grabbing info for AI. Of we all started to say. “ Terry Bradshaw bought Lionel” and kept posting that. In two days AI would post a story saying . Terry Bradshaw is the new owner of Lionel” believe 10 petcent of what i say and nothing AI says. Refus mentioned it in the medical industry . It’s just ad bad in real time news. It will be political warfare one day if not now and people buy into it.

[HONDO74]

Deepfake videos impersonating real doctors push false medical advice and treatments
https://news.yahoo.com/articles/deepfak ... 17097.html

[healey36]

They used to say "Ya can't believe everything you read in the newspaper!". Well, things are exponentially worse today, I guess.

The thing is, I don't see this level of bloated user counts on other forums...what makes MTJ special?

To be honest, I'm not too worked up about it, it was just an observation...I was curious what was driving the stats.

Now, if you could suggest ways to rid the basement of the spiders that produce cobwebs, I'm all ears! Those spiders, and bots, they seem to share a number of characteristics...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They used to say "Ya can't believe everything you read in the newspaper!". Well, things are exponentially worse today, I guess.

No guessing needed; nothing is credible and consider the source of all information as suspect until otherwise verified. First and foremost, follow the money....

The thing is, I don't see this level of bloated user counts on other forums...what makes MTJ special?

Old software, probably....

Now, if you could suggest ways to rid the basement of the spiders that produce cobwebs, I'm all ears! Those spiders, and bots, they seem to share a number of characteristics...

Nothing I'm afraid that will let you continue to live in the house once applied to rid you of the spiders,

[healey36]

Nothing I'm afraid that will let you continue to live in the house once applied to rid you of the spiders,

I was thinking of using three or four of those flea bomb aerosols down there...set them off, then evacuate the premises for 4-5 hours. However, I'm not sure what effect that might have on the layout and display shelves. There are a bunch of paper models that might get obliterated in the process. Probably a good, thorough cleaning would do wonders, rather than just the occasional vacuuming with the shop vac.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I was thinking of using three or four of those flea bomb aerosols down there...

Only if you want whatever agents is in them all over everything,

Probably a good, thorough cleaning would do wonders.........

Some days, just stopping everything and doing a cleaning day is for the best. Amazing what gets discovered during that process,

[healey36]

Down to just 55 online viewers at 1348 today...semi-reasonable number. Apparently the bots have checked out, again, or maybe someone changed up the security profile so they can't get on.

[sarge]

Another example of the total uselessness of Google AI:



Targeted product placement (thanks to our little friend the Google Bot) and absolutely incorrect information (a GP7b is powered, not a slug as described).

Google AI is completely unreliable and cannot be considered a citable source in the slightest. What is worse, it's dangerous simply because what bollocks it generates will someday be accepted as fact by the lazy and the ignorant.

Our brave new world.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......someday be accepted as fact by the lazy and the ignorant.

Someday was last year....

[healey36]

I would agree that Google AI pushes a stream of mostly rubbish. So does Yahoo's version of AI they use to summarize incoming email. The other day Hondo sent me a mail talking about a few items he saw on Trainz and was contemplating. He attached a screen-shot from the Trainz site. Yahoo's AI-generated summary of Hondo's message starts with "You agreed to purchase x items from..." First thought was that someone had hacked my Trainz account, possibly my credit card. Reading his mail, realized it was a total punt by Yahoo AI.

I think the keyword in all of this is "artificial", as in an imposter for intelligence. The race, or stampede, to deploy AI is ridiculous.