I took the daughter's advice and went to YouTube and posted a comment on the video. The negative reactions are ticking up. Very telling that the overall tally of dislikes on the video is hidden.
The first thing that came to my mind is that I'd like to see Firefox develop an AI-content detector, as Emelia suggested. I don't really browse the Internet anymore, because I got tired of reading halfway through some website and realizing it was utter nonsense and clearly AI generated. I asked my search engine (MetaGer) if they could label results and they said no. I don't believe it can't be done.
@tchambers@rant.vpalepu.com Still waiting for help to do this from a blog on Wordpress.org.... (Wordpress isn't just Wordpress—it is either .com or .org, and there is a difference in Activity Pub functionality).
Sorry, I was busy IRL for a few days, but I’d like to reply by saying I wish you would refrain from being insulting here on Mastodon. I don’t need a tin foil hat, thanks. Discussions here are freewheeling, but I don’t welcome strident proclamations.
So WHY is #BlueSky building its #AT protocol around #bigdata collection? I see big data as antithetical to #fediverse. I’m here on #Mastodon expressly to be out of the firing range of the big data obsession. My entire Internet device ecology at home is designed to foil data tracking. Why would I stay on the fediverse if I knew it was feeding into some megalomaniac’s big data obsession?
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