Framework consider sponsoring companies with fascist links fine. The ceo said theyrr a big tent with room for all opinions.

A lot of people stopped being involved with them after that.

Thanks this is useful to know

The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.

At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of that on russia specifically.

And you need a blank tape to copy to, the makers of which did have to pay a charge to content firms to cover piracy.

In this tortured analogy the blanks are also included in the ai firm product, so yes they would have had to pay

Often laptops are so underpowered, and office is so bloated now, its better.

It’s not that I don’t believe them, but anything coming from spooks has to be looked at a little sideways.

Thanks for the reply. I just couldn’t figure out how they had enough intelligence to find all these telegram groups, maybe that’s easier for a nation state than I thought.

There were reports (claims I suppose) that the fsb were using telegram to organise the stochastic gig job sabotage across Europe.

Joining a neo fash telegram group, pretending to be a rich neo fash who wants to help the cause but not risk themselves and paying people for putting up posters, damaging equipment etc.

Does what has been found here shed any more light on that? I’d guess it would allow them to find these groups to target them very easily? That was the bit I couldn’t quite understand from the original report, if so this all makes more sense.

Oh dear no I’m repying to agree. It is all good.

It’s a lazy Sunday and while I have a dozen better things to do trying to make clear posts about ai in a place where people will agree intelligently is a nice waste of time.

The soul thing is very poor ground to argue on yes which is why I immediately spent the time to make a different one :)

At very best it’s an intuitive understanding of “procedural oatmeal” where the brain spots patterns in the output so quickly it becomes tired of the art and loses interest.

But I think that’s being generous and I think of lot of the time it’s a purely to stake a position based on identity and a challenge to that identity.

It’s not any of those reasons, it’s because it can only exist by being trained on human authored art and in many cases you can extract a decentish copy of the original if you can specify enough tags that piece was labelled with.

The ai model is a lossy database of art and using them to launder copyright violations should be illegal, is immorally stealing from the creator, and chills future artists by taking away the revenue they need while learning. This leads to ai model art having not enough future work to train on and the stagnation of the human experience as making beautiful things is not profitable enough, or doesn’t give the profit to those with power.

There was definitely a problem at first (when musk bought twitter) on mastodon with people buying a server instance for the black community, and then not actually blocking all the standard bad servers.

Basically giving them a server full of targets to harass.

I guess you could say setting up an instance and maintaining a blue sky block list is sort of similar, you’re taking it on yourself to see all the horrible stuff, even seeking it out, to protect others.

The blue sky approach lets people use multiple Blocklists though and masto just has the one of the server you’re on and your personal one. Lots of room for improvement.

it’s up to us commenters to back you up.
Totally worth reading, just great internet creativity

With the number of trackers on most sites you usually get a performance boost with an extension vetting each network call