But if BestNetTech reports only one side of a disputed issue, and the minority side at that, I have no hope of become more informed by reading it.
First, the comments are linked, so if you earnestly want to know what they say, you have been empowered to do so.
Second, you seem to assume that with one third of the comments coming from EFF associated people that the other two thirds of comments would be in contrast to the EFF's position, but there's no statement actually confirming that. Why do you think there are only two sides to the disputed issue? That's called a false dilemma.
It's weird to complain that you haven't sufficiently been told what to think.
The big media companies would love to do away with comment sections. They've been trying to turn the internet back in cable and broadcast television where they get to control the programming and narratives and the population is just a passive audience paying for products and services without interruptions or distractions or critical analysis.
Soozafone, the guy behind the popular Dummy 13 3D printed poseable models, is dealing with this bullshit. A Chinese scooter company (Shenzhen LiFan Technology Co., LTD.) filed and received a fraudulent patent on Soofafone's designs and is issuing takedown notices against multiple parties, including against the designer himself. The USPTO spent months "reviewing" the patent application and apparently didn't do a simple google search.
Except since the "think of the children" excuse was bullshit, they'll just move on to another bullshit excuse. [The economy! | terrorism! | crime! | immigrants! | drugs! | dogs and cats living together! | Aunt Edna's fruitcake! | Labubus!]
Please send help in the form of doughy, unintelligible rage addicts dressed like they are weekend paint-balling with their boss for a promotion.
Do you have a card I can print out and hand to all the Meal Team Six tacticool-clad rural Washingtonians who come to Portland to redirect them your way? They have big trucks with hemis that drive fast in the slow lane and slow in the fast lane, so bonus!
We have as much ability to defund our military as fine upstanding Ozzies have to enjoy succulent Chinese meals without having judo moves applied to them.
They were in fact wars against poor people and democracy, or more generally, America. And they were successful. The Trump Administration is a direct result of the success the racists and authoritarians had in those wars, weakening democracy, trapping voters in media echo chambers that induce fear of others, justifying massive expenditures to fund wealthy donors and military budgets and law enforcement budgets, and restricting rights and freedoms.
I feel like it's more important that it comes from a white person, preferably a relative of the original creators or a historian who has insight into the culture that spawned it. So many people of color I've spoken to are exhausted from feeling like the world expects them to educate others about racism like it's their job just because they experience it.
So I was going to say, "It's anti-human to be honest about the nature of human beings? Have you met human beings before?"
But then I realized that you have to be facetious here and you're spewing bullshit to ironically prove my point. so in that regard, bravo!
Of course the cops and their leash holders won't think so, but using AI for anything official relating to charges or trials should lead to an automatic dismissal of charges. You can't practically confront software that hallucinates your guilt, so anything it touches should be inadmissible.
Quote me where I said we should be doing that. The topic was about the possible uses of LLMs, not their costs. The costs don't justify the use, but it's a juggernaut that our random comments on a website are not going to derail.
And why is all of that how this works? Because the process Steam follows is to takedown the game upon accusation.
Except I suspect this is only the case for indie games. If you or I filed a DMCA takedown for a mainstream game by a big studio, Steam probably won't just pull the trigger.
Meh. Generative AI can have positive uses. You're just not using your imagination.
It shouldn't replace artists and writers. But it can be used to generate fake posts for your fake social media account so that the Trump administration will think you love America when they review your social media accounts during your immigration process. Doing that manually would be really time-consuming.
Generate fake selfies to get around oppressive, privacy-violating ID verification systems.
Fill ExTwitter with more AI slop so more advertisers and users leave the platform.
Write bullshit work emails so your asshole boss thinks you really care about his latest project while you're working on developing your side gig so you can quit one day.
Use AI to socially mask for you so you don't have to do the emotional labor of interacting directly with exhausting narcissists.
I'm okay with private operators deciding whether porn or calls for violence are appropriate for their platforms. I don't consider that censorship unless the policies aren't applied evenhandedly. That's a free speech right for the owners of the platform. There are platforms where porn is welcome. There are platforms where calls for violence are accepted.
If Mike blocks a porn post here in the comments, more power to him. It's not a porn site where people are looking for or expecting that. That's on the person making the post for thinking it's the appropriate place to post it. Usually platforms will have a stated policy about what content is allowed.
You still have people like EFF or Cory Doctorow who use it that way, or are worried about it.
Note that the EFF specifically modified the term as "platform censorship." That's a good method for differentiating to prevent confusion. I don't disagree with Cory's assertions on the topic, but that's also not mutually exclusive with what I said. He's using the technical definition in a particular context in which it is appropriate.
sexwork often gets heavily censored on most major platforms (and not just one).
But sex work is in some jurisdictions illegal and platforms can get in trouble legally for hosting it (Backpage, hello!).
Things like calls to violence, as well.
Calls to violence are generally illegal and not protected speech. Platforms have a good reason to "censor" that.
Basically that narrow band of things that aren’t considered advertiser friendly but are technically legal.
I would dispute the idea that these are technically legal. It would depend on the specific examples and the nuance may require a court case to determine. In general, calls to violence and soliciting sex work can be considered illegal.
The big media companies would love to do away with comment sections. They've been trying to turn the internet back in cable and broadcast television where they get to control the programming and narratives and the population is just a passive audience paying for products and services without interruptions or distractions or critical analysis.
Soozafone, the guy behind the popular Dummy 13 3D printed poseable models, is dealing with this bullshit. A Chinese scooter company (Shenzhen LiFan Technology Co., LTD.) filed and received a fraudulent patent on Soofafone's designs and is issuing takedown notices against multiple parties, including against the designer himself. The USPTO spent months "reviewing" the patent application and apparently didn't do a simple google search.
Except since the "think of the children" excuse was bullshit, they'll just move on to another bullshit excuse. [The economy! | terrorism! | crime! | immigrants! | drugs! | dogs and cats living together! | Aunt Edna's fruitcake! | Labubus!]
We have as much ability to defund our military as fine upstanding Ozzies have to enjoy succulent Chinese meals without having judo moves applied to them.
Behold, the Party of Fiscal
ResponsibilityCorruptibility!They were in fact wars against poor people and democracy, or more generally, America. And they were successful. The Trump Administration is a direct result of the success the racists and authoritarians had in those wars, weakening democracy, trapping voters in media echo chambers that induce fear of others, justifying massive expenditures to fund wealthy donors and military budgets and law enforcement budgets, and restricting rights and freedoms.
I feel like it's more important that it comes from a white person, preferably a relative of the original creators or a historian who has insight into the culture that spawned it. So many people of color I've spoken to are exhausted from feeling like the world expects them to educate others about racism like it's their job just because they experience it.
So I was going to say, "It's anti-human to be honest about the nature of human beings? Have you met human beings before?" But then I realized that you have to be facetious here and you're spewing bullshit to ironically prove my point. so in that regard, bravo!
Of course the cops and their leash holders won't think so, but using AI for anything official relating to charges or trials should lead to an automatic dismissal of charges. You can't practically confront software that hallucinates your guilt, so anything it touches should be inadmissible.
Quote me where I said we should be doing that. The topic was about the possible uses of LLMs, not their costs. The costs don't justify the use, but it's a juggernaut that our random comments on a website are not going to derail.
To be fair, humans are the original bullshit generators. We're just outsourcing the effort and increasing the cost and chaos.
Meh. Generative AI can have positive uses. You're just not using your imagination. It shouldn't replace artists and writers. But it can be used to generate fake posts for your fake social media account so that the Trump administration will think you love America when they review your social media accounts during your immigration process. Doing that manually would be really time-consuming. Generate fake selfies to get around oppressive, privacy-violating ID verification systems. Fill ExTwitter with more AI slop so more advertisers and users leave the platform. Write bullshit work emails so your asshole boss thinks you really care about his latest project while you're working on developing your side gig so you can quit one day. Use AI to socially mask for you so you don't have to do the emotional labor of interacting directly with exhausting narcissists.
Maybe a game where Bosko and Honey teach you about racist depictions in media.
I'm okay with private operators deciding whether porn or calls for violence are appropriate for their platforms. I don't consider that censorship unless the policies aren't applied evenhandedly. That's a free speech right for the owners of the platform. There are platforms where porn is welcome. There are platforms where calls for violence are accepted. If Mike blocks a porn post here in the comments, more power to him. It's not a porn site where people are looking for or expecting that. That's on the person making the post for thinking it's the appropriate place to post it. Usually platforms will have a stated policy about what content is allowed.
"Just because I'm in the NSDAP and SS it doesn't make me a Nazi."