I’m pretty sure the people who still use Twitter use it for the drama. Mastodon and Bluesky just aren’t as spicy to them. Hell, Mastodon takes setting up to even get anything interesting.

Other comments are saying this is an ad, which… Is true, but this was informative too and now I know about a product I’ve never even considered before.

The technology works the same way at everything. It averages and smooths out the rough edges into a homogrnous lump.

Found the normie

You sound like someone who hasn’t been bit.

Cool 😋

Hmm? I just scrolled through 100 of the top Revolt servers.

Why?

You’re right, that was a crap insult. Discord is just such garbage. Like its so sad to see discord become this naughty gamer queer safe space that… Takes all of this data, doesn’t sell it, just gives it to shareholders that have bought in. Its disgusting.

Nah I think I prefer Matrix. The Revolt servers have that same unproductive samesy flair as discord.

Femboy server uwu cutesy safe (but slightly horny) space. Trans programmer server yay!!

It’s all junk. Matrix has less, but the servers I’m in are trying to do something new. They’re trying to fight the patterns and habits and create something more mindful, safe, and engaging.

Show me an IRC where I can share images and then jump into a jitsi voice call or whatever, I’d use it every day. I’m in discord, matrix, all of this shit. I mostly wanna send memes to a few friends 😮‍💨

Edit: reactions are pretty sweet in my eyes btw. I use a lot of emojis.

Can you go into more depth about why this is a problem on the server side? On client side, I found a few clients that work well and its been easy breezy since then.

You’re free and welcome to use encryption very frequently. Matrix also keeps a list of everyone who has read each and every message.

The only stillbirth here is discord.

Wait WHAT

Thin clients! $30, sometimes $15, for just as much CPU power as the Pi. More power usage, though. And ensure you buy the cables and SSD, check carefully what the seller is including or excluding from the shipment.

Gaba degool

Thanks for this reply. You’ve shown this issue has depth that I’ve ignored because I like very few of the advocates for the AI we’ve got.

So one thing that trips me up is I thought copyright is about use. As a consumer rather than a creator this makes complete sense - you can read it, if you own it or borrowed it, and do not distribute it in any way. But there are also gentleman’s agreements built in to how we use books and digital prints.

Unintuitively, copying is also very important. Artists copy to learn, for example. Musicians have the right to cover anyone’s music. Engineers will deconstruct. and reverse engineer another’s solution. And businesses cheat off of one another all the time. Even when it has been proven to be wrong, the incentive is high.

So is taking the text of the book, no matter how you got it, and using it as part of a new technology okay?

Clearly the distribution isn’t wrong. You’re not distributing the book, you’ve made a derivative.

The ownership isn’t there, I mean the works were pirated. We’ve been taught that simply having something that was gotten through online copying is not only against the ‘rightholder’ but “piracy” and “stealing”. I have a really simplistic view of this - I just want creators paid for their work, and have autonomy (rights) over what is done with their work. This is rarely the case, we live in a world with publishers.

So it’s that first action. Is that use of the text in another work legal?

My basic understanding of fair use is that fair use is when you add to a work. You critique or reuse that work. Your work is about the other work, but also something new that stands on its own like an essay or a collage, rather than a collection.

I am so confused. Text based AI is run by capitalists. And we only have it FOSS because META can afford to lose money in order to remove OpenAI from the competition. Image based AI is almost certainly wrong, it copied and plugged in all of this other work and now tons of people are suing, Getty images is leveraging their rights management to make an AI that follows the rules we are living with. My gut reaction is a lot of people deserve royalties.

But in the other hand it sounds like AI did not work until they gave it the entire internet worth of data to train on. Training on smaller, legal sets was a failure? Or maybe it was because they took the tech approach of training the AI on every google image of dogs, or cats, etc. Without any real variation. Because they’re engineers, not artists. And not even good engineers, if their best work is just scraping other people’s work and giving it to this weird computer program.

This is all just stealing, right? But stealing is a lot more legal than I thought, especially when it comes to digitally published works of art, or physically published art that’s popular enough to be shared online.

Amazing how every generation of technology has an asshole billionaire or two stealing shit to be the first in line to try and monopolize society’s progress.

What the AI is doing is reverse engineering the authors magic formula for creating new works

Great but the humans involved knowingly let it scrub pirated works.