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Here's the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn't entirely new; we've heard stories of shadow banning on Twitter before. But the automation and AI involvement are making it more sophisticated and all-encompassing.

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[–] BioDriver@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man that’s gonna be one stupid AI

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Gatsby@discuss.online 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tyfud@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago
[–] BioDriver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t understand the difference

[–] coheedcollapse@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Stuff like this is my biggest reason to believe that the current anti-ai movement is incredibly misled.

They want to stop open scraping, but if they're successful, only companies like Twitter, Google, Disney, Getty, Adobe, whatever, are going to have their own closed systems that they'll either charge for or keep themselves to replace workers, instead of the tech being open to all of us.

Open scraping is the only saving grace of all of this tech because it's going to keep at least a number of options entirely free for anyone who wants to use them.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't most of the issue people have open scraping and using it to create copyeritten content that they then sell back to us? It's not just the scraping, but that they also want to own the output.

[–] coheedcollapse@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

It's controversial, to be sure, but I've always been of the mind that if someone wants to do something transformative to one of my works, they've generated something different, despite being "inspired" by my work.

ML gens are transformative by nature, so I don't think my work being one of millions of datapoints used to create something is a huge deal.

That said, I'm also an advocate of preservation through piracy, so I'd be a hypocrite if I wanted to go copyright mad at bots for looking at images I uploaded on the public internet.

[–] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Nope, the AI race will be win by whoever goes the lowest, unless they're being stopped.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

Here is an idea. Leave twitter. Then just ignore it.

[–] confluence@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well LLMs are about to get a lot less reasonable.

[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago

Garbage in, garbage out

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

Twitter has been selling their entire database for years. Those that purchased the data have likely been doing everything with it already.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

New model to be called ChatKKK.

[–] vluz@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

HateLLM will be a smash. /s

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago
[–] argo_yamato@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Left twitter a few months ago and it seems like everyday there is a new reason that made leaving a good call

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

As a Thai I am very intrigued about how the AI-trained version of @sugree will be like.

For context, Sugree has made numerous Nostradamus-like "prophecy" tweets that predated important events in modern Thai history, such as political movements, before disappearing after a lawsuit.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this one of those accounts that made a ton of predictions, deleted the ones that didn't come true, and only then did someone find out that they tweeted accurate things?

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No. He just tweeted a whole damn lot to the point that eventually anything and everything will come true anyway.

(He did not make "explicit" predictions. Just random shit that happened to come true.)

[–] Skoobie@lemmy.film 3 points 2 years ago

So not shadow banning so much as putting feeds thru a kaleidoscope 😂

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Many people might overlook the importance of the fact that a significant portion of cutting-edge tools, including 'A.I.', Large Language Models (LLMs), and Stable Diffusion (SD), are grounded in open source. This approach has led to a broad spectrum of contributors, ranging from novices to experts, who are diving into these technologies and pushing their boundaries every day.

Among the various projects and platforms, Meta's contribution is noteworthy. Not necessarily because of altruism, but for their strategic decision to release Llama 2 as open source.

It’s natural for people to feel a mix of intrigue and caution towards new technologies; while they're perhaps attracted by the novelty, there's also an inherent fear about the potential unknowns. This duality reflects human nature to seek progress, while also being wary of unforeseen consequences.