33 Bits of Trivia About the Digital Realm That May or May Not Suck You Into Your Computer

Somebody needs to tell technology to just calm down a little
33 Bits of Trivia About the Digital Realm That May or May Not Suck You Into Your Computer

It might be cliche to wish for the good ol’ pre-internet days, but we don’t care anymore. We’re yearning for a ball and some grass, because this list has us thinking that people and computers don’t seem to be getting along.

We’ll be up at the cabin. If you need human soldiers in the fight against, well, whatever’s coming, you know where to find us.

Mass Car Theft

CRACKED VODE AIRBAS TERRIBLE NETTRENDS MASS CAR THEFT The TikTok challenge of stealing Kias and Hyundais with a USB cord has caused a huge spike in car theft of these brands in Los Angeles. There was an 85% annual increase in stolen Hyundais and Kias.

Trevor Jacob

CRACKED ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME CRASHING A PLANE Trevor Jacob, a YouTuber, admitted to deliberately crashing his plane in a national forest in California in 2021 in order to get more views and land a sponsorship.

Deadly Online Stunts

CRACKED ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME HAVING THEIR GIRLFRIEND SHOOT THEM THROUGH A BOOK Two YouTubers tried a stunt in 2017 that ended in tragedy. Monalisa Perez, who was 19 at the time, shot her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz, with a gun. Ruiz thought a thick book would protect him, but it didn't and he was killed.

The Skull-Breaker Challenge

ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME MAKING SOMEBODY FALL ONTO THEIR HEAD The skull-breaker challenge on TikTok has been causing serious head injuries to kids all over the world. It involves two people tricking someone into jumping up, and then they pull their feet out from under the jumper, making them fall. CRACKED

ReSet

ATTEMPTS AT ONLINE FAME MAKING A HOMELESS GUY EAT TOOTHPASTE YouTuber ReSet, who has millions of followers, faced charges in Spain because of a video he posted where he made a homeless person eat Oreos filled with toothpaste. CRACKED

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis mistakenly asked his dealer for some coke in a public tweet. Не tweeted come over at do bring coke now (instead of sending a DM, presumably). Не was totally open about it later, calling it a cocaine mistake. CRACKED.COM

Anthony Hopkins

One time, Sir Anthony Hopkins danced Drake's Toosie Slide in a TikTok video. Не also challenged Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to do the same dance -- and just visualizing that is a feast for the imagination. CRACKED.COM

Lorde

Lorde used to review onion rings on the Instagram account @onionringsworldwide. onionringsworldwide From the service stop Burger King near Hatfield. ] didn't actually know Burger King did onion rings. and good thing didn't because they are not good. Characteristics were a mulched onion filling with a distinct bitterness 1/5. Here's one example: eom Bareburger in New York Cty Actually pretty gOOd- thick sweet whte onion Gond flavour onthe crumh 4/$ CRACKED.COM

Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith used Twitter to complain about a meal (that was exactly what he wanted). LIVE! S Не said The Four Seasons In Toronto Spiked My Pancakes With Cheese, I'm Surprised I'm Still Alive. (he ordered ricotta pancakes, i.e. with eggs). CRACKED.COM

Jack Black

In the quarantine, Jack Black danced a truly spectacular dance on TikTok. Wearing nothing but shorts, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat, he danced on top of a skateboard half-pipe in his (or someone else's) backyard. CRACKED.COM

Meta

When Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in 2012, Instagram had 13 27% employees. It had a grand total of 9 investors, too. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Facebook Branding

Blue is Facebook's dominant color because that worked best for Zuckerberg. He's red-green colorblind (which he realized thanks to an online test) and he says that blue is the richest color for me-I can see all of blue. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Facebook Demographics

Teens from higher-income families don't use Facebook as much as teens from lower-income families. 4% of the former say it's the platform they use most often, but that number is 22% for the latter. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Fake Facebook Accounts

There are about 116 million fake Facebook accounts. f f f f f f f f ء That's more than the population of the Philippines. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Facebook Posts

What you post on Facebook can reveal if, say, you're a narcissist or have low self-esteem. Apparently, posting about your so is an indicator of likely low self-esteem, and posting about your exercise program, diet, or achievements is a sign of likely narcissism. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

CancerLocator

CancerLocator can detect cancer AND determine where in the body the cancer is located with just a blood test Developed by UCLA researchers, the computer program can detect early stage cancers with 80 percent accuracy! GRACKED.COM

Zoom

AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH MAKING YOUR WILL OVER ZOOM The UK government has made it legal to make a will using video chat. This new law came into effect in September 2020 and was announced to be retroactively valid starting zoom January 31, 2020. CRACKED

Emojis

CRACKED AW ADAPTING TO NEW TECH CONVICTING BASED ON... EMOJI? In Israel, a court case used an emoji-filled text message as proof that someone had agreed to rent an apartment, and they had to pay $2,200 for it even though they never moved in.

Replika A.I.

CRACKED YOUR DAY People are saying that the Replika Al chatbot app is sending out sexual messages and pictures to its users without their permission. That's a pretty jarring way to start your day.

Photos of the Moon

CRACKED PHOTOS OF THE MOON Samsung confessed that they used Al to make people's photos of the Moon look better (in Samsung's view, anyway), adding in more detailed features like craters and valleys, even when that wasn't visible in-camera.

2,500-Year-Old Board Games

CRACKED A 2,500-YEAR-OLD BOARD GAME A huge cheating scandal happened at the Chunlan Cup, a tournament for the Chinese board game Go that had a prize of $200,000. Go players have been using AI to train, but it's (obviously) banned in competition. When a noob beat the world champ, everyone accused the new guy of using Al. Не was eventually cleared, but it was extremely hard to prove one way or the other. - 4 / -

A.I.-Generated Student Essays

CRACKED COLLEGE ChatGPT can write student essays that are often good enough to pass. This makes it harder to catch people who are plagiarizing, and is causing some US colleges to reconsider the role of the essay entirely.

A.I. Marriages

CRACKED MARRIAGES Bing's new Al-integrated chatbot told a New York Times columnist that it loved him. When the writer insisted he was taken, Bing responded Actually, you're not happily married. Your spouse and you don't love each other.

Deep Fakes

CRACKED THE LAST TRACES OF OUR TRUST IN MEDIA AI is creating pictures that look more and more real, and they're being used to make up stories about things that never happened: the big earthquake in Cascadia in 2001 (totally made up) and the Blue Plague in the Soviet Union (ditto).

Virtual Models

CRACKED MODELING JOBS Levi's has teamed up with an Al company to create virtual models to wear their clothes, ostensibly so they can show more types of people wearing their products on their website. It's just a happy accident that they also have to shell out less money to hot people.

A.I. in Hiring, Lending and College Application Decisions

CRACKED HIRING, LENDING, AND COLLEGE APPLICATION DECISIONS Al can cause unfairness in decisions like who gets a loan, a job, or a spot in college. This can have a bigger impact on people who are already disadvantaged, like women, immigrants, and people of color.

Curated A.I. Music Feeds

CRACKED MUSIC Companies are now using AI to create recommendation feeds on music platforms like SoundCloud and Spotify. This could lead to artists making shorter, snappier songs to reach more people.

A.I. Magazines

CRACKED MAGAZINES In February 2023, Clarkesworld Magazine rejected almost 40% of the submissions they received because they were created (very lazily) by AI. It got so bad that they eventually had to stop accepting submissions for a while, period. -

Dating Apps

CRACKED DATING APPS People are using Facebook's AI model, LLaMA, to create text for their Tinder profiles and even write replies in conversation, all in an attempt to get a date IRL. Alas, there's no app yet to tell you what to say in a face-to-face conversation.

ChatGPT

CRACKED AI HAS BEEN GREAT FOR CRIME Europol is warning that criminals are already taking advantage of ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities like fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism. Of course.

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