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  • 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),

  • Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

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  • followups by other teams that were able to find most of the same vulnerabilities with other existing models

    The one I saw was marketing hype by a company claiming to be able to do the same thing but cheaper. But when you read the fine print, you could tell that it was all just fudged.

    It's comical how people who need to believe that it's all just marketing hype bought that marketing hype hook, line, and sinker. The implication that this would mean that LLMs are far, far more capable than anyone gives them credit for, completely slipped past them. Stochastic parrots with no understanding.

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Didn't some of those promise not to merge AI slop? I guess I misunderstood.

  • The zero-days are numbered | The Mozilla Blog

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  • Yeah, let's all use a fork that doesn't patch those AI slop vulnerabilities.

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • Yeah, ok. But the military is explicitly supposed to keep functioning when the backend gets nuked literally. Who wants to pay for that kind of redundancy just so that some people can watch Netflix while they're dying of radiation poisoning?

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • Oh! Good one!

    That it's open to interpretation is part of the fun. I don't know what the person who made it intended. I didn't even recognize from what show it was.

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • PPV is what boys do in the bathroom.

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • It's double entendre, deriving from certain associations with Thailand. If one is in the know, one can read the meme as implying a rather implausible story. There is a humorous twist, but it would be rather dull if spelled out. This way, one derives satisfaction from decoding the meme, and knowing oneself to belong to the in-group.

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • 100% reliable AI detector. What's not to love?

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • Sheesh. Can't a woman be bored by some old story without everyone jumping to far-fetched conclusions!

  • So much Love for a Friend

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  • It wouldn't be funny if it was obvious. Thanks for your sacrifice.

  • Is there a reason why the piracy scene here is so dead?

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  • Whether on purpose or accidental lemmy.world admins are a bit secretive about which communities they block, there is no published list anywhere I could find.

    It may be illegal to link to illegal content. They could certainly get in trouble over it.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • Law in some (many?) European countries already requires more intrusive age checks. The EU also has some explicit requirements. There is also push to ban social media for people under a certain age (maybe 16).

    The EU has just presented an age verification app. That app would become a required standard through new laws. or even through case law from court judgments.

  • Is there a reason why the piracy scene here is so dead?

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  • Lemmy.world tries really hard to follow the law. That means cracking down on illegal content. So yes, we are puritanical here.

    At the very bottom is a menu with an entry called "Instances". Click that to see lists of linked and blocked instances.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • Everyone can be an Attestation Provider,

    Maybe everyone can apply to become one, but there will be some certification process. Anything else would defeat the purpose. So you have the question of how much that would cost and who pays for that.

    I agree that, on a technical level, it should be possible to implement support for the app.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • Maybe, but letting a new instance federate doesn't create a bigger abuse risk than allowing account creation. Going through a compliance checklist takes more effort.

    It might split the Fediverse in compliant and non-compliant, where compliant servers don't talk to the others.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • Good questions. I haven't seen any info about the economics yet. I think that's up to the member states?

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • You don’t need age verification if you run it for your family and know everyone’s age.

    You could run your own family forum just fine. The problems start when you want to federate. Let me be crass to make the point. Say someone posts child porn and that gets federated to your instance. You think you can just declare that someone else's problem to avoid legal complications?

    The way I expect this would work, is that instances would become responsible for who they federate with. If an instance allows your family instance to federate, they would allow your users to indirectly use their instance. We'll have to wait what lawmakers or courts do, as you say. But I think, federation would only be by manual approval after some sort of check for compliance, or maybe even a legal contract similar to how it goes in GDPR. Actually, such GDPR contracts might be required anyway, but who cares.

  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • I hadn't considered if existing legislation might already require implementing an age verification when l posed the question. Now that you bring it up, I fear it does.

    The DSA has exceptions for small companies. But I would caution that there is no case law that supports your interpretation that users should be counted on a per-instance basis. Courts are often not very receptive to attempts to avoid rules through such formalities. Bear in mind that the DSA is supposed to protect the "fundamental rights" of Europeans, which may not include running an instance.

    Other laws do not have such exceptions. This app seems poised to become the required age verification mechanism, wherever age should be known. Either use the app or show you have something better.

    In January, a Berlin court ruled that TikTok was in violation of the GDPR for not doing enough age checking. It's being appealed. It remains to be seen how much of that case will be applicable to the Fediverse. But there is a good chance, that even without new laws, age-gating will become mandatory through case law.