Because federation is a mess, and doesn't really solve the problem. There's no quick elevator pitch that non-technical people can understand, on-boarding is painful, and even if you as the publisher understand it, your audience may not.
President Joe Biden has suggested he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November....
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
Yes, that's exactly what I expect. If you can't verify with 100% certainty that your supply chain isn't using slave labor, then you stop using that supply chain. And if that costs the company an entire market, or even causes the company to fail, then so be it.
Yeah I think I agree. The law should be: if you can’t positively confirm it’s clean, you can’t use it.
We should have standards for the treatment of people, and strive not to participate in or reward those who treat people in unacceptable ways.
Totally agree.
It’s not good for a country to create an unfair marketplace. And it is an unfair marketplace when rules which acutely affect only certain people drastically for the good of all, are implemented too quickly to adapt to without major setbacks.
Just saying it should be phased in, to minimize local economic tearing.
Totally disagree.
Fines/tariffs/etc. are just cost of doing business for big business. Slowly enforcing regulation gives companies time to hedge, shuffle, and deflect without actually doing anything. Consequences should be hard and fast. Economies be damned. If an economy can't stand on its own without companies acting ethically, or with them being punished for it, then it shouldn't stand at all.
Wait. We're talking about making sure a company isn't using slave labor in their supply chain, and creating consequences for them doing so. And that's a problem for you? You think it's fucked up that a company forced to abide by rules preventing them from using slave labor?
And that's the problem. The average person isn't looking for it, and will absolutely not see it. As long as it's good enough, that's all that matters. A plausible enough video of Joe Biden talking about rounding up Christians into internment camps that gets shared on Facebook, or something like that which panders to right-wing bigotry, is enough to get people going. Even real images and videos that are miscaptioned are enough, and even when a link is there that disproves the caption.
People seriously underestimate just how horrifying the possibilities are with this shit. And as high stakes as this election cycle is, and the state of politics in this country, the tendency for people to latch on to anything that affirms their preexisting ideals creates a fucking minefield
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
This has nothing to do with realizing the technology promise of the 90s, or "lowering barriers to entry," or user freedom, and everything to do with clear-cutting the entire technology scene. Handing everything over to LLMs isn't the way to fight the corps, because they're going to take those same tools, and destroy incalculable numbers of developer careers, destroy software quality, and anything else they can, just so they can pad their bottom line. And we will be significantly worse off for it.
Also, I am so fucking sick of language like "I don’t want this power to be constrained to a priesthood who know the secret language of coding." OP sounds like those people who think artists are "gatekeeping" art, and that AI image generators are "democratizing" art. It's so fucking disingenuous and gross. No one is gatekeeping anything. Anyone can pick up a pencil, or download a free drawing app and make art. Just like anyone can follow countless numbers of free YouTube vids and online tutorials to learn how to be an Android dev. There's no fucking priesthood or soldier at the gate preventing anyone from doing anything.
This whole article is nothing but AI/LLM apologietics wrapped up in FLOSS language.
How open source money fixes a corrupted banking system ( youtu.be )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17303063...
A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon ( arxiv.org )
Archived version...
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation ( www.theguardian.com )
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Joe Biden issues Supreme Court warning ( www.newsweek.com )
President Joe Biden has suggested he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November....
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' ( www.hrw.org )
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track ( arstechnica.com )
Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement ( www.axios.com )
Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration ( wedistribute.org )
Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions ( blog.mkhoury.org )
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....