• plz1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some day, we’ll have a technology sub that isn’t polluted with Twitter “news”.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a tech company that is burning itself to a ground. Hard to take your eyes off of a slow moving car crash.

        • clausetrophobic@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          And remind ourselves that it find very easily happen to the fediverse! All it takes is mass defederation, some vulnerability, anything ego driven… humans still run this platform and it wouldn’t take much to bring it down.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      On Reddit I’ve found most of the news about the big social networks is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

      I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.

    • Cheers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      This is a bit of a learning experience though.

      The big tech companies advocated during 2020 that they were not biased and should not be held responsible for policing the Internet.

      Since then, FB swapped to Meta to cover up the documents showing FB is intentionally causing psychological damage our children because it gives them more clicks/view time.

      OpenAI scraped the Internet, legally and illegally to power ChatGPT.

      Twitter, a social media company known for free speech, was bought by Musk, a former Trump associate. Trump was reinstated during this period and dissent was banned.

      Google decided to push web DRM to force us to use their software or else we can’t access the Internet.

      Sounds like they very much want to police the Internet. We just aren’t putting the pieces together in a collective way.

      • Sinnerman@kbin.social
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        OpenAI scraped the Internet, legally and illegally to power ChatGPT.

        I’m not a huge OpenAI fan, but it’s not yet been determined that they acted illegally. I believe the matter is still being pursued in court.

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          I think people are too focused on the scraping, which is clearly not illegal, but is what the roch people who own the websites are hollering about because they wanted to make money off of selling the posted content they did not actually own

          Open AI’s implementation of image creation in the style of a particular artist using copyrighted works is going to be the big outcome.

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            1 year ago

            It’s not illegal for a person to learn things online. That’s one of the original purposes of the “world wide web” when it was opened to universities.

            It is illegal to copy someone’s brand and use it to make money. These chat bots are literally charging people to take input like “write a story in this author’s style” and outputting a story that is a poor mimicry. The main problem is they are charging money based on someone else’s trademark. Not that they write a similar story.