I've been on USENET back then (I wrote software for it), and it was nothing like the Internet of today. The amount of spam was neglectable, and perpetraters were quickly taken care of. Spam started to be a problem with Sanford Wallace (may he fry in the deepest hell!), and that was an email issue.
And the "expert systems" from back then were not even close to modern LLMs. They used rather sparse resources (even the big ones), they were "hand-made", single problem oriented, and did not even try to look intelligent in any way. And nobody shoved them down your throat at every corner. A typical "expert system" of the time was an OCR system or a statistical analysis software for optimization purposes.
Which is absolutely worthless, especially if it is based on English pronunciation, which is basically random. That's why I was asking for an audio file.
Sadly they did not keep him in their concentration camps to reinforce the impression on him how this kind of ideology that he so vehemently proposed ultimately leads to
There are some common ground rules what people consider illegal. You cannot cover every countries' rules, of course, but blatant copyright violations, CSAM distribution, doxxing data is something most people can agree on.
And the jurisdiction of the location of the server is an important point, too.
Selfhosting has more reasons than "just" evading rules one does not like.
I've been on USENET back then (I wrote software for it), and it was nothing like the Internet of today. The amount of spam was neglectable, and perpetraters were quickly taken care of. Spam started to be a problem with Sanford Wallace (may he fry in the deepest hell!), and that was an email issue.
And the "expert systems" from back then were not even close to modern LLMs. They used rather sparse resources (even the big ones), they were "hand-made", single problem oriented, and did not even try to look intelligent in any way. And nobody shoved them down your throat at every corner. A typical "expert system" of the time was an OCR system or a statistical analysis software for optimization purposes.