• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    This is election year in Brazil, the electoral court did put some guidelines. Whether they’ll be smart enough to enforce is a different matter. “All AI use must be clearly labeled, no deepfakes allowed”. Alright, what about forcing fucking platforms to clearly label whether any content is a paid promotion and, more importantly, WHO is paying for it?

    Also good luck on us against the “whatsapp uncles”, the idiots who’ll mass forward bullshit based on the title alone, even when the actual article (that they never read) says the complete opposite. I still remember one such “uncle” back in 2018, who forwarded a super obviously fake “group chat print” of “antifa terrorists planning an attack” (I called it an obvious fake, he called me a “useful idiot”), as well as a video of “Politician XZY DEFENDS INCEST!!!” (i had a hard time following wtf said politician was saying, but it was in no way anything even remotely like promoting or defending incest, she made a comparison of something with something being the same as incest. We got into another argument, with me sending a fact-checked link about the video, him ignoring it and me calling him an illiterate idiot. I quit the group afterwards.)

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    Yeah. Seems someone needs to be taking criticism of $obvious_bad_thing, and translating it into other languages and reading levels.

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      2 days ago

      It may not be that obvious that the thing is bad for many people, and AI is a great example of that. Many haven’t heard of the actual environmental impact these machine learning models are having, or about the AI companies’ incessant quest of scraping every single thing that’s on the Internet, whether pirated or not, without paying or even asking for permission. Heck, most people don’t even know the basics of how these models work, or what they’re useful for! And its not like AI companies will be the first ones answering those questions. The sole reason why these companies became so successful is because almost no one knows what AI is, which results in almost nobody knowing what the technology’s limitations are. And when no limitations are apparent, it starts to look like the technology is limitless (it isn’t, but it’s being sold as if it were).

      TL;DR it might be obvious to you and me that $bad_thing is bad, but that doesn’t make it obvious to every one else.

      • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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        2 days ago

        Yes. I cannot force people to read, but I can ensure (but I won’t actually follow through) that criticisms are readable to those with poor reading skills, and those that do not read English.