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Social media is a horribly unspecific term

Think of what would happen if you could pay the world’s smartest people in all fields of study $1 million a year salary to work on AI and AI adjacent research? That’s a rounding error at this scale

They’d have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make it work, and their investments are not what you’d need to do that. For a mere fraction of the cost of all these datacenter shaped money pits they could build world class research labs that would put the old bell labs to shame, but they…aren’t

So the question us not if it is profitable (it isn’t) but when the money dries up

Time to teach kids Linux

IP is evil

None. Literally none. Just corporate greed

Come to think of it, how accurately can facial recognition tell apart to people who look very similar?

And we all wish there were less spying on all fronts

They have cradles that hold them so a camera can photograph them. You then save the book afterwards

I love Anna’s archive

We can’t make them not suck as people but we can turn Frankenstein’s monster back aginst them

All of the above, preferably

There’s a huge difference, an absolute chasm, between non-destructive scanning, which was always an option by the way, for the purposes of putting it in a public archive and And destructive scanning with the intent to hide it from the public where it may never surface for all we know.

Copyright law is not some philosophically derived right it’s literally just a government granted Monopoly that was invented in the 1700s because printers wanted dibs on books. It literally serves Now function other than giving advantages to our corporate overlords

I only ever made a Facebook account because of one club in college that never posted their meeting time and location, which changed, anywhere else and you couldn’t access it without an account. Believe me I tried. The last time I interacted with that account was a couple years ago when I Got a notification that someone tried to log into it so I went and changed the password just to make sure no one would be impersonating me. I didn’t give them more information than was necessary. I don’t know that I even uploaded a photo of myself. In the people you may know section I only ever saw one person that I actually knew, which means I was probably doing something right

The first people have to abandon the idea that they’re only allowed to use one product of a category at a time. It will not kill you to use to chat apps, it will not kill you to use two microblogging services. The second is that you need to prioritize the better one when you can. This eliminates lock-in effects which are a major moat

At minimum run an instance for posting stuff you make. It doesn’t have to be open to randos to be useful. Pool together the tech staff, make pbs.social and all the stations and get accounts, you can follow them, boost, repost, comment under it from another instance

This is the central problem with AI art

Remember when this was just supposed to be about pornography? Notice how it never ever applies strictly to pornography and how that’s always just a foot in the door excuse