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[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Truth be told, I'm not a huge fan of the sort of libertarian argument in the linked article (not sure how well "we don't need regulations! the market will punish websites that host bad actors via advertisers leaving!" has borne out in practice -- glances at Facebook's half of the advertising duopoly), and smaller communities do notably have the property of being much easier to moderate and remove questionable things compared to billion-user social websites where the sheer scale makes things impractical. Given that, I feel like the fediverse model of "a bunch of little individually-moderated websites that can talk to each other" could actually benefit in such a regulatory environment.

But, obviously the actual root cause of the issue is platforms being allowed to grow to insane sizes and monopolize everything in the first place (not very useful to make them liable if they have infinite money and can just eat the cost of litigation), and to put it lightly I'm not sure "make websites more beholden to insane state laws" is a great solution to the things that are actually problems anyway :/

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 23 points 1 year ago

But the system isn’t designed for that, why would you expect it to do so?

It, uh... sounds like the flaw is in the design of the system, then? If the system is designed in such a way that it can't help but do unethical things, then maybe the system is not good to have.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I mean they do throw up a lot of legal garbage at you when you set stuff up, I'm pretty sure you technically do have to agree to a bunch of EULAs before you can use your phone.

I have to wonder though if the fact Google is generating this text themselves rather than just showing text from other sources means they might actually have to face some consequences in cases where the information they provide ends up hurting people. Like, does Section 230 protect websites from the consequences of just outright lying to their users? And if so, um... why does it do that?

Even if a computer generated the text, I feel like there ought to be some recourse there, because the alternative seems bad. I don't actually know anything about the law, though.

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

I beg your pardon?

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

Wow, I guess humans and LLMs aren't so different after all!

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Psst, check the usernames of the people in this thread!

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 10 points 1 year ago

yes, computing systems use energy. If our energy grid is overly reliant on the burning of fossil fuels that release harmful emissions, that doesn’t mean we need to stop the advancement of our computers. It means we need to stop using so much fossil fuels in our grid.

Now where have I heard something like this before? I'm trying to think of something, but I just can't quite seem to remember...

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

RationalWiki is an index maintained by the Rationalist community

Lies and slander! I get why he'd assume this based on the name, but it would be pretty funny if the rationalists were responsible for the rational wiki articles on Yudkowsky et al, since iirc they're pretty scathing

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"I know not with what technology GPT-6 will be built, but GPT-7 will be built with sticks and stones" -Albert Einstein probably

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is this trying to say "discrimination against racists is the real racism"? ... Would that be "racismism"?

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this reads like someone googled a list of gen z slang and then threw it in a blender with a bunch of weird race-science memes. who is this for

I think the only acceptable response to whoever is responsible for it is a highly aggressive "touch grass"

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