Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
Things change. There was a period before this information was easily available; this repository only goes back to 2013. Now there’s a period after this information, too. Things start and eventually they end.
Here’s hoping that some neat new things start up in its place.
It’s often not a choice between an AI-generated summary and a human-generated one, though. It’s a choice between an AI-generated summary and no summary.
They’re not “pushing their Recall removed whether we like it or not”, they’re explicitly making it opt-in. They gave a removed about their users’ complaints and made a bunch of modifications to it.
You may still not like it, but give them some credit.
Seems like lemmy.ml is really collapsing in on itself. Overall not good for the general health of the fediverse.
I’d argue that a biased overly-centralized instance like that collapsing in on itself is good for the general health of the Fediverse.
there needs to be some kind of accountability/ redress if open & free communities are going to be a long term project.
The redress is having lots of servers to switch to, much like how on Reddit the redress was “start your own subreddit if the one you’re on is moderated poorly.” I can’t imagine any system that would let you “take control” of some other instance without that being ridiculously abusable.
Apparently, I am. People actually want this
Thank you for recognizing this. It gets quite frustrating in threads like these about new AI tools being deployed when people declare “nobody wants this!” And I try to explain that there are actually people that do want it. I find many AI tools to be quite handy.
I tend to get vigorously downvoted at that point, as if that would make the demand “go away” somehow. But sticking heads in sand doesn’t accomplish anything except to make people increasingly out of touch.
Is McDonalds a hamburger company or a french fry company?
One thing that might be nice is if there could be a standard for user IDs that would allow multiple systems to work seamlessly together.
You could have Mastodon continue to focus solely on being a completely open media aggregator and social network, but also have some other completely independent and secure private messaging system that uses the same user ID system. Then if you want to send a private message to someone who’s made a Mastodon post you can use that and it “just works.”
Creating a universal user ID system that would work across all of this is challenging, of course.
One of the important features of Mastodon is that you can choose what your feed is. Everyone’s feed has an algorithm determining what’s in it even if it’s just a simple “list the posts of everyone I’ve subscribed to in chronological order.”
If someone else wants to see a feed of content that is curated and sorted in a different way, why get angry at them? They’re not forcing you to see that feed.
It sounds like they weren’t “being fed into an AI model” as in being used as training material, they were just being evaluated by an AI model. However…
Have you spent more than 4 seconds on Mastodon and noticed their (our?) general attitude towards AI?
Yeah, the general attitude of wild witch-hunts and instant zero-to-11 rage at the slightest mention of it. Doesn’t matter what you’re actually doing with AI, the moment the mob thinks they scent blood the avalanche is rolling.
It sounds like Maven wants to play nice, but if the “general attitude” means that playing nice is impossible why should they even bother to try?
You’re on slrpnk.net, I assume it’s not implementing any of this stuff. As long as you don’t sign up for Maven I don’t see how this is going to affect you.
Looks like it.
In addition to pulling in posts, the import process seems to be running AI sentiment analysis to add tags and relational data after content reaches Maven’s servers. This is a core part of Maven’s product: instead of follows or likes, a model trains itself on its own data in an attempt to surface unique content algorithmically.
But of course, that news doesn’t give the reader those lovely rage endorphins or draw clicks.
This is the Fediverse, having the content we post get spread around to other servers is the whole point of all this. Is this a face-eating leopard situation? People are genuinely surprised and upset that the stuff we post here is ending up being shown in other places?
There is one thing I see here that raises my eyebrows:
Even more shocking is the revelation that somehow, even private DMs from Mastodon were mirrored on their public site and searchable. How this is even possible is beyond me, as DM’s are ostensibly only between two parties, and the message itself was sent from two hackers.town users.
But that sounds to me like a hackers.town problem, it shouldn’t be sending out private DMs to begin with.
I saw a video by CSI Starbase that speculated that during IFT3 the hot stage ripped off in an uncontrolled manner due to failure of the latches holding it in place. Since the latched-on nature of the interstage is a temporary measure anyway they may have figured “who cares, we’re not trying to make this bit work so just throw it away so we can properly test the stuff we do want to do.”
My guess would be that they figure the engineering to get that to work is simple enough that they skipped the risk of it messing up the much more challenging and interesting test of reentry. They already relight Merlin engines in a vacuum routinely so they’re experienced with that, even though Raptor’s a very different engine I bet there’s plenty of similarities there.
Yeah, nothing against Ernest but developing and running kbin is just too big to be a one-man show.
There’s going to be bubbles everywhere. I’ve been called a troll and downvoted heavily in various communities because I don’t hate Microsoft or AI in general, for example.
If you want to get away from the Lemmy codebase entirely I can vouch that mBin works quite nicely. I’ve been on fedia.io for months now and only once or twice hit some kind of technical problem, which was resolved quickly.
I would imagine that if an admin is doing this the modlog could simply be faked, you wouldn’t be able to trust anything that the instance is reporting to the outside world.
Plenty of non-capitalist organizations also seek to grow.
Users “owning” their content in that way would be the instant death of the Fediverse. If anyone can put whatever nonsense license terms they want on each individual comment or post, how could that chaos possibly be federated?
A better approach would be to recognize that if you’re posting your words up on a giant billboard you’re not going to be able to control who sees them.
See, reusable.