@blogdiva Reminds me of the game I played on Twitter, before I deleted my account there, of shutting down Chinese government foreign influence bots by prompting them to discuss democracy or the Tiananmen Square Massacre or the CCP genocide of the Uyghurs, or by simply using the flag of Taiwan emoji.
@nixCraft I'd love to see some legal wordsmithing conditioning lawful access to a digital service on non-participation of any entity developing generative AI or acting as an agent thereof, non-disclosure of any text or other media to any such entity, and non-use of generative AI in any interaction with the service. To take it beyond breach of contract and other civil cases, perhaps it could be tied to perjury. And to facilitate prosecution, perhaps it could require consent to disclosure proving violation and waiver of, for example, indemnification contracts.
And then provide a button on the registration (and if necessary, login) form to fill that legalese into a textarea (e.g., "under penalty of perjury, I, …."), submission of which is required for any access to the service.
Fanciful thinking perhaps, but it would be nice to have a slice of the Internet free of human outputs being absorbed into LLMs and the like and free of LLM etc. slop spamming the inputs.
@nopatience Yeah, a lot of them haven't learned the lesson yet. That's why I put up with Bluesky and use it as a de-facto RSS feed which just happens to be incompatible with the rest of my RSS feeds. I still need to keep up with the industry, but I won't be posting there. I deleted thousands of hours worth of writing from Twitter. Lesson learned.
@nopatience FWIW, I'm read-only on Bluesky. Much like @pluralistic, after Twitter, I'm never again investing my time in a platform subject to the whim of a billionaire. It's only a matter of time before the #enshittification of Bluesky ensues, once the VCs start demanding to extract returns on their speculation.
Or as Cory put it, "I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will."
