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@trashheap What's to stop slop from lying about being a human? (Sorry, not trying to be combative. I'm just as tired and cynical as you.)
@temporal_spider They could I suppose, but most AI users seem hyper concerned with promoting their AI use as wonderful; so my gut seems to think that it might take a bit for rampant lying to catch on.
Self labeling/reporting is generally also the only real option for giving consumers choice and is being used pretty effectively in the self published TTRPG scene on storefronts like DriveThruRPG. Most slop authors there simply label they have used AI, or leave it ambiguous. Few have insisted it was 100% human made when it was not.
Report: Microsoft's Project Helix planned for 2028 at $1,200 to $1,800 price
Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/report-microsofts-project-helix-planned-for-2028-at-1200-to-1800-price/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAno.
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enshitification.
@anna People think I'm strange when I tell them that if they want to share music with me, give me FLACs.
You're saying "User control is what's important.", which has several huge flaws.
The first is that it places the onus on the victim. We see this all the time on Babka. An attacker attacks people on our server either directly by creating a bunch of harassing accounts, or through disinformation campaigns spread across the network.
Such coordinated attacks aren't addressable with the "block button".
The second is that it furthers the victimization by forcing persecuted minorities into the digital ghetto. I've seen this as well. We complain to another server about the abusive behavior of one of their users and the admin's response is "If you don't want to be harassed, de-federate."
Imagine if you called the police about being beaten up on the street and the police said "If you don't like it, don't leave your house."
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This is a secondary form of abuse as well, as it presents the victim as both the one to be responsible for their victimization and presumes its their fault for not blocking.
Thirdly, it dismisses real forms of coordinated disinformation campaigns. This is a serious issue and we see it.
"User empowerment" only works when both parties have power parity and are willing to play by the same rules.
When there's disparity, when harm is easier to create then good, or when one party is willing to create more damage than the other, these systems simply perpetuate or even amplify harm.
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It’s just bad design. What happens when/if the fediverse scales up to many more instances?
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Fediverse
Thing is, Fediverse is not a product
"Autopilot"? I prefer the term "device driver".
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This is no different from how it is already, though. If a user posts a CSAM link, your server immediately visits that link to scrape it, and you suddenly have that content on your server.
Of course, if you have a blocklist of forbidden sites, then your server will know not to scrape that site. And the same thing applies if we allow servers to send pre-scraped metadata. If the incoming message is for a blocked URL, just drop the message and don’t save any part of it.
The only new threat here is for a malicious server operator to modify outgoing messages to include CSAM metadata on a harmless link. However, that possibility already exists with any other photo posted on the fediverse.
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