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  • A more private way to distribute votes

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  • It seems that the assumption is that there are not and will never be spambots on the Fediverse.

    At least, the source of truth shouldn't be the author of the post.

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  • GDPR-wise, this is the absolute nightmare scenario.

    Data about the political orientation is defined as especially sensitive ("special category data"). When people just straight post their ideological leanings, that's one thing. But what's described here is profiling. All the available data relating to a person is analyzed by "automatic means" and used to assess their leanings. This then is used to discriminate against them. It doesn't get much worse.

    This might be legal in very specific circumstances. EG non-profit religious or political organizations are allowed to police their members and associates to some degree. That would involve quite some extra paperwork. But it doesn't apply here anyway.

    Apparently that is on top of ordinary GDPR violations. The processing is done by a third party (OpenAI) without the necessary paperwork. You remember that billion Euro fine that Meta got? That was because they processed data outside the EU, in the US. And that wasn't even "special" data.

    You know how those cookie banners in the EU look like? That's for normal data. All the disclosure, all those settings are legally required. Some people on the Fediverse go apeshit over far smaller things.

    This may also be a problem for other instances. Your instance sends all your data (except e-mail and IP address) to anyone in the world who asks, with no strings attached. That may be okay as long as users understand that that's exactly what they sign up for. Looking at comments here, it doesn't seem like that is universally understood. That's a problem. On top of that, we now have a situation where there are hints that the personal data is being abused.

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  • Is this some big brain attempt to discourage people from suing? That's no good. The solution is simply to have the hosting and responsibility outside of Europe. No big deal. Mastodon sits in New York.

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  • Are there GDPR implications?

    Hahaha. Oh boy...

    This is amazingly illegal. The emotional damages might be high enough to make it worthwhile to sue. Neither Meta nor almost any of the other companies that users here love to hate, have ever done anything even remotely as bad.

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  • No. You're thinking of California law. PII is not a thing in the GDPR.

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    Anxiety around AI is growing rapidly in the US, research shows

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  • Yeah, there seems to be a campaign to deflect blame from Trump onto AI. I can't imagine it working, though. What average voter will connect rising prices to some new gizmo on the phone?

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    Meta’s historic loss in court could cost a lot more than $375 million

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  • Mask off would mean that you know where they stand. But I can never tell if lemmings are fashy or just idiots. Probably both, I think. They go over the cliff either way.

  • Federation Has a European Legal Problem

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  • There has always been a tension between GDPR and the Fediverse; more generally, between European laws and the Internet. That's why Europe doesn't have the Big Tech companies. Europe demands a lot of control over the sharing of data. That's difficult to reconcile with the decentralized nature of the Fediverse, or the Internet as a whole. The Künast case is really only one example.

  • Federation Has a European Legal Problem

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  • technically only right now affects a single Romanian marketplace

    Not quite. The point of the ECJ is to make sure that European laws are the same all across Europe. When a national court is not quite sure how to interpret EU law, they must ask the ECJ.

    What the ECJ says that GDPR means, is what it means all across Europe.

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  • NOT COOL BRO!

  • turing test

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  • Freedomize me once, shame on you. Freedomize me twice, shame on me.

  • Meta Sheds Influencer Andrew Tate's Lawsuit Over Instagram Ban

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  • In the EU, the DSA gives people pretty extensive rights to challenge such bans (and other moderation decisions), but only if the platform is sufficiently large.

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • He corrupted the youth! #ThinkOfTheChildren

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • Nice logic. Coming for the secret ballot is the obvious next step. I'm sure that is a great way to prevent toxicity at the ballot booth.

  • What are some words where the "opposite" one means the same thing?

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  • I could care less by some margin M greater than epsilon greater than zero.

  • Even experts are surprised by AI’s latest ‘vibe-mathing’ advance

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  • Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

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  • The EU has similar but generally harsher laws. The copyright lobby is extremely powerful. They literally control the media. In the US, this is slightly tempered by the traditional commitment to free speech.

    Europe demands that you follow their law if your service is available to them. You may have noticed the legal fight between the UK and 4chan? (BBC story)

    In the EU there is a lawsuit regarding the matter. The ECJ will soon decide. It's about the diaries of Anne Frank, which are public domain in most countries, but not in the Netherlands. The Dutch Anne Frank Foundation offers a free edition on the net, but in deference to Dutch copyright they geoblock the Netherlands. The rights owner, the Swiss Anne Frank Fund, is suing them with the argument that geoblocks can be easily circumvented via VPNs. (Heise story)

    So that's about where we're at.

  • Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

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  • Their own demonstrator had to work with a downlevel firefox so it would still have vulnerabilities that were already fixed before they even started.

    Or as they put it, they turned Firefox 147 in an evaluation.

    They pitched it as “it is dangerous, it will escape confinement”, etc etc.

    I admit that I didn't study their marketing materials, but that sounds kinda off. Maybe something got garbled?

  • AI as a Fascist Artifact

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  • I know what you mean, but this looks more like capitalist propaganda. The "creative sector" is ruthlessly competitive and hardcore capitalist. Smearing your competition is a normal tactic for getting ahead.

    Note the marketing psychology 101. Build a personal relationship between customers and your brand. Make them feel like they are part of a community. That gets you customer loyalty without having to do something expensive, like offering good value.

    Also note how there is never any mention of non-creatives threatened by AI, like translators or programmers. Technologies that only threaten blue collar jobs are not even controversial.

    Think about what the actionable takeaway is. Protect the jobs of creatives and expand intellectual property to allow more rent extraction by rights owners. And those marginalized groups? Stay marginalized. But perhaps there should be some changes. The data labelers should lose their jobs (they will be so happy!) The jobs should go to people in our community (which is good in a completely not racist way!). We should keep doing what we're doing (it's ok that this churns out racist data, as long as no one trains AI),

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    The math on mass deportation doesn’t add up

    reason.com /2024/11/24/the-math-on-mass-deportation-doesnt-add-up/
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    Italian watchdog warns publisher GEDI against sharing data with OpenAI

    www.reuters.com /technology/italian-watchdog-warns-publisher-gedi-against-sharing-data-with-openai-2024-11-29/
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    Next year we may see copyright value having doubled within a decade. Make no mistake: it’s boom time.

    www.musicradar.com /music-industry/if-you-had-suggested-this-in-2015-you-would-have-been-laughed-out-of-the-room-music-is-now-reportedly-bigger-than-cinema-globally
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    Candy is distributed boo-nomially

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    AI just steals other people's labor

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    A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

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    The critical window of shadow libraries

    annas-archive.org /blog/critical-window.html
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    Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

    blog.archive.org /2023/11/02/internet-archive-submits-comments-on-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/
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    Ackshually

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    Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

    www.techdirt.com /2024/06/07/top-eu-court-says-theres-no-right-to-online-anonymity-because-copyright-is-more-important/